Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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
Human
Humans
Excursions
Things
Limbo
Semi
Deliverance
Prison
Dreams
Dream
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel
True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel
[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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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
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