A belief is not true simply because it is useful. Henri Frederic Amiel More Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel More Quotes From Henri Frederic Amiel Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel be-kind haste kindness Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. Henri Frederic Amiel ignorance men knowledge Love is faith and one faith leads to another. Henri Frederic Amiel faith love-is Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. Henri Frederic Amiel ends doubt reality Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. Henri Frederic Amiel accounts society science [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. Henri Frederic Amiel faith class science Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. Henri Frederic Amiel diversity guilt mean To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. Henri Frederic Amiel health rose morning A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. Henri Frederic Amiel phantoms philosophical able Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults. Henri Frederic Amiel philosophical race together The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record. Henri Frederic Amiel philosophical men philosophy Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. Henri Frederic Amiel deliverance prison dream In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. Henri Frederic Amiel grace christian order If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Henri Frederic Amiel passion ignorance class Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frederic Amiel apology regret acceptance 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. Henri Frederic Amiel guilt justice mean There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. Henri Frederic Amiel health men believe Common sense is calculation applied to life. Henri Frederic Amiel calculations common-sense common In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. Henri Frederic Amiel affection love past Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. Henri Frederic Amiel destiny mom mother
