Henri-Frederic Amiel quotes Swiss philosopher, poet and critic. Born: 09/28/1821 Died: 05/11/1881 Country: switzerland

• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Any landscape is a condition of the spirit (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Common sense is calculation applied to life (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Order is a great person's need and their true well being (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Order is power (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
• Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin (Henri-Frederic Amiel)

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