“Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.”
Hope
“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
FutureAll Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”
Faith“Order is power.”
Power“Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.”
Future“In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.”
Freedom“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
Life“Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.”
Art“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”
Age“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.”
Art“Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.”
Family“Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.”
Truth“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”
Good“Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.”
Music“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
Sympathy“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.”
Teacher“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”
Courage“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.”
Intelligence“Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.”
Communication“Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be equally outraged by silence.”
Truth“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
Life