306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

The thirst for truth is not a French passion

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

Tell me what you think you are and I will tell you what you are not

Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.