Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quotes

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped for everything cannot be equally considered in a word he must be able to simplify his duties his business and his life.

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Man becomes man only by the intelligence but he is man only by the heart.

To learn new habits is everything for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.