Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
Henri Frederic Amiel quotes about
mom mother destiny
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
perseverance missing self-improvement
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
states consent compulsion
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
communication crowds contagion
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
time ideas illusion
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
apology atheism faults
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
inspirational teacher teaching
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
soul substance
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
dream deliverance prison
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
jesus believe
About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.
understanding firsts understood
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
atheist real errors
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.
health men doctors
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
soul growth important
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.