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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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[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.
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At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that all other studies bring us back to this study.
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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.
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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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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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
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The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
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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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The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.
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As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past
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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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.
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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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