306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.