Explore Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

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

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

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.