Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
Diarist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Genève
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Upon
Moon
Tell
Dying
Feel
Room
Feels
Rooms
Shall
Full
Lamp
Happiness
Lamps
Happy
Shining
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man never knows what he wants he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri Frederic Amiel
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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
True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
