Quotes by : Henri Frederic Amiel

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great....

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred,....

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of....

Time wasted is a theft from God.

A man must be able to cut a knot for everything cannot be untied.