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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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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What governs men is the fear of truth.
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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
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Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.
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[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
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I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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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.
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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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We only understand that which already is within us.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
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