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Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is...
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no...
A belief is not true because it is useful.
Source: Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872,...
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of...
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of...
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal...
Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of...
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Source: Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872, entry for...
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Source: In
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Source:...
Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.
A philosopher is
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
Source: In Webster's...
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he...