Top 66 Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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

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.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

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