Swiss - Philosopher | September 27, 1821 - May 11, 1881
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
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Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
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Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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