Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
roots religion enthusiasm
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
mean self order
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
men order needs
Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.
genius latent presumption
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
flower heart looks
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always--this is duty.
spring flower men
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
ideas two needs
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
passion blow men
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks
sarcasm brave balls
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
men fool he-man
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
light philosopher mystery
A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.
independent independence desire
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
philosophy mean mind
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
ends conditions stationary
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end