306 Quotes by Henri Frédéric Amiel

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

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings

A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.