Category - Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is a great person’s need and their true well being.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

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