Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frederic Amiel

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, ‘faith governs the world,’-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

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Faith

Science

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[T]he habit of scientific analysis … exhausts the material offered to it.

Analysis

Science

Scientific Method

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A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Atheism

Belief

Positive Atheism

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A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country and public. It is a grief-cheating device, a mode of escape and withdrawal; but, factotum as it is, though it takes the place of everything, properly speaking it represents nothing at all.

Cheating

Country

Grief

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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Cutting

Letting Go

Life

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

Men

Understanding

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A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

Blow

Men

Passion

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A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Able

Phantoms

Philosophical

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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Education

Knowledge

Learning

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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

Exhausted

Musical

Silence

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