Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing easily what...

Doing easily what...

Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is...

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Analysis kills spontaneity....

Analysis kills spontaneity....

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no...

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A belief is...

A belief is...

A belief is not true because it is useful.

Source: Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872,...

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For purposes of...

For purposes of...

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of...

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To know how...

To know how...

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of...

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Wisdom consists in...

Wisdom consists in...

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal...

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Let mystery have...

Let mystery have...

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of...

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The man who...

The man who...

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

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The great artist...

The great artist...

The great artist is the simplifier.

Source: Amiel's Journal, 1849-1872, entry for...

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A thousand things...

A thousand things...

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat: that is progress.

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Clever people will...

Clever people will...

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Source: In

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A man only...

A man only...

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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Action is coarsened...

Action is coarsened...

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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An error is...

An error is...

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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Charm is the...

Charm is the...

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Source:...

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Every life is...

Every life is...

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

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A philosopher is...

A philosopher is...

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into...

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Destiny has two...

Destiny has two...

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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Emancipation from error...

Emancipation from error...

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

Source: In Webster's...

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It is not...

It is not...

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he...

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