Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
faith love-is
Love is faith and one faith leads to another.
ignorance knowledge men
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
kindness be-kind haste
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
reality doubt ends
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
life analysis spontaneity
Analysis kills spontaneity.
life love-life
Hope is only the love of life.
giving-up fall silence
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.
tissues substance life-is
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
character civilization firsts
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.
believe men sick
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
justice may social-justice
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
mean justice guilt
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
love grief men
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
life ideas feelings
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.