Quotes Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not ...

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscu...

Action is only coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, ...

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree o...

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour...

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit....

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven ...

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

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but clever...

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for not...

Common sense is calculation applied to life....

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed ...

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for...

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

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing wha...

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevit...

Everything you need for better future and success has alread...

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrownes...

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own n...

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are ...

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion....

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a p...

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liber...

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that ...

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses ...