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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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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
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Joy is the vital air of the soul.
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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.
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To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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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.
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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
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The best path through life is the highway.
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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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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute for feeling, except in the infinite for the soul, except in the divine.
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
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Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
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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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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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