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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
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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.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
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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.
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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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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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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