Quote

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Needs
Moment
Scarcely
Time
Idea
Conception
Moments
Perceive
Two
Measure
Ends
Difficulty
Thought
Pure
Ideas
Since
Need
Almost
Perceives

More quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Image
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
Image
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
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
Image
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
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?
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Pay bad people with your goodness fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Image
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel