Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful."
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"Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"How then find the courage for action?... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"How then find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness spontaneity instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. ... By accepting the human condition more simply and candidly by dreading troubles less calculating less hoping more."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"We must have the courage to be happy."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"To repel one's cross is to make it heavier."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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