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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Never to tire, never to grow cold to be patient, sympathetic, tender to look for the budding flower and the opening heart to hope always like God, to love always--this is duty.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
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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.
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From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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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?
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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
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The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
Henri Frederic Amiel
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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.
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