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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Life alone can rekindle life.
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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
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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.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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.
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