Henri Frederic Amiel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Henri Frederic Amiel:

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Henri Frederic 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 Frederic Amiel

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The best path through life is the highway.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is power.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henri Frederic Amiel