Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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

“Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.”

“Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.”

“Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.”

“A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.”

“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”

“Time wasted is a theft from God.”

“To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.”

“Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.”

“Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.”

“A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.”

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

“The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.”

“Almost everything comes from almost nothing.”

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

“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything sufficient for nothing.”