Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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

“He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.”

“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

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

“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.”

“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”

“The best path through life is the highway.”

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

“Order is power.”

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

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

“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”

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

“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”

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

“True humility is contentment.”

“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”