197 Quotes by Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.

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.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.