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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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Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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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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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
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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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The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words too late ringing in our ears.
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It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
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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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Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
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Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
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Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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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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Every situation is an equilibrium of forces every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
Henri Frederic Amiel
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
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