Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
religious educational character
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.
religious educational men
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
educational garden waiting
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
motivational fitness freedom
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
passion men iron
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
cute-love loved sweet-love wish women
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
expresses man worth
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
becoming both common consists delusion lending madness oneself rising superior universal wisdom
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.
finite fragments infinite space time
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.
soul suffering witness
Its way of suffering is the witness which a soul bares to itself.
capable living
So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being.
difficult easily impossible others talent
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius.
exercises faith inevitable life profession silent
Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
belief true useful
A belief is not true because it is useful