Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
mean self order
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
perseverance missing self-improvement
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
self soul tears
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
persistence self able
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.
grief recovery self
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
men self might
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.
self numbers wish
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
men animal self
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
heart self wind
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...
change self long
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri
according duty
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
french passion thirst truth
The thirst for truth is not a French passion
exercises faith inevitable life profession silent
Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
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.