So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Category Archive: Henri Frederic Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
True humility is contentment.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
The best path through life is the highway.
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.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.