Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes & Quotations

Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

» We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

» Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

» Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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

» To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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

» Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

» Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults --a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

» So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

» It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

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