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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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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world all is strange to me I am, as it were, outside my own body and individuality I am depersonalized, detached, cut adrift. Is this madness?
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.
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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
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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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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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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.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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