Top 66 Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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

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.

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

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

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

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

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