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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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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.
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Time wasted is a theft from God.
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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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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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The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
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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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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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True humility is contentment.
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Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
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The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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