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The best path through life is the highway.
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
Henri Frédéric Amiel
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More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What governs men is the fear of truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
Henri Frederic Amiel
At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
Henri Frederic Amiel
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
