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Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
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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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.
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The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
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The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.
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Hope is only the love of life.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.
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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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The stationary condition is the beginning of the end
Henri Frederic Amiel
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
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