Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
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
Drift
Dominant
Respect
Times
Men
More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
Henri Frederic Amiel
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel
What governs men is the fear of truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel
