Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes & Quotations

Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

» To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

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

» The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

» Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

» 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.

» Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

» Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

» Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

» Order is power.

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