What did Henri Frederic Amiel mean by: Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. Henri Frederic Amiel Copy
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Equality, Humanity, Identity, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Faith, Influence, Life, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Connection, Soul, Vision, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Beauty, Happiness, Ugliness, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul – HOPE Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Hope, Presence, Soul, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Intelligence, Sympathy, Understanding, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Awareness, Health, Ignorance, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henri Frederic Amiel, Acceptance, Advice, Desire, 0 Henri Frederic Amiel
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
