An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Henri Frederic Amiel More Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel More Quotes From Henri Frederic Amiel It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. Henri Frederic Amiel inspirational character men Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Henri Frederic Amiel glowing sacrifice suffering Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. Henri Frederic Amiel sacrifice passion law Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists. Henri Frederic Amiel mountain kind thinking To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. Henri Frederic Amiel responsibility crosses Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri Frederic Amiel cleverness intelligence clever He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Henri Frederic Amiel self-improvement perseverance missing If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. Henri Frederic Amiel consent compulsion states Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. Henri Frederic Amiel contagion crowds communication The only substance properly so called is the soul. Henri Frederic Amiel substance soul 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. Henri Frederic Amiel illusion time ideas To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri Frederic Amiel educational teacher art We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. Henri Frederic Amiel psychics relationship peace Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. Henri Frederic Amiel criticism sympathy firsts Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. Henri Frederic Amiel persistence self love We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity. Henri Frederic Amiel hypocrisy successful god Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. Henri Frederic Amiel illusion believe thinking About Jesus we must believe no one but himself. Henri Frederic Amiel believe jesus The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph. Henri Frederic Amiel opportunity night lying To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. Henri Frederic Amiel our-time respect men
