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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
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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We only understand that which already is within us.
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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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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
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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.
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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.
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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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Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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