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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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