“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence
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“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Communication
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“Common sense is calculation applied to life.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Common Sense
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“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
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“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sympathy
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“Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charm
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“It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Change
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“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The only substance properly so called is the soul.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul
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“Society lives by faith, and develops by science.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Society
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“Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sacrifice
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“To shun one’s cross is to make it heavier.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Responsibility
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“To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Respectability
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“There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Respectability
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“We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Relationship
