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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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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
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We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
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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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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
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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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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.
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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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We only understand that which already is within us.
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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety nine retreat That is progress.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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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