Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
exercises faith inevitable life profession silent
Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
advice haste life swift
Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!
haste hearts life short swift time travel
Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
path life-is highways
The best path through life is the highway.
life-lesson liberty life-is
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
life analysis spontaneity
Analysis kills spontaneity.
life love-life
Hope is only the love of life.
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.
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.
life submission oscillation
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.
love life love-life
Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
life men world
I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.
life divine our-lives
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal.
faith life-is profession
Every life is a profession of faith ...