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What we do not understand we have no right to judge
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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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.
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.
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There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Do not despise your situation in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
Henri Frederic Amiel
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Henri Frederic Amiel
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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