Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
landscape spirit american-landscape
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
kindness heart dark
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
genius talent mark
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.
genius latent presumption
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
humanity majority species
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.
kindness giving effort
It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
humility men and-love
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.
kindness compassion justice
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
kindness be-kind haste
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
kindness hate way
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
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.
time wasting-time wasted-time
Time wasted is a theft from God.
humility humble contentment
True humility is contentment.
believes curing health himself man sick
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health