Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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
Enlightens
Consumes
Enlightening
Fire
Passion
Feelings
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life alone can rekindle life.
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
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Henri Frederic Amiel
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
Henri Frederic Amiel