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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
(27 Sep 1821 - 11 May 1881)
Swiss philosopher and poet who wrote Journal Intime (published posthumously, 1883-84), his introspective diary kept from 1847. He was professor of aesthetics (1849) and moral philosophy (1853) at Geneva.
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Science Quotes by Henri-Frédéric Amiel (14)
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. (26 Dec 1852)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 34.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. (26 Dec 1852)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 34.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, (3 Dec 1872), trans. By Mrs Humphry Ward (1889),131.
See also: | Dream (2)
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, (3 Apr 1865), trans. By Mrs Humphry Ward (1889),104.
See also: | Health (43)
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. (26 Oct 1875)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 227.
See also: | Truth (125)
Society lives by faith, develops by science. (7 May 1870)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 169.
Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 396:36.
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, (6 Feb 1877), trans. By Mrs Humphry Ward (1889),131.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. (17 Dec 1856)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 60.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel, (21 Sep 1874), trans. By Mrs Humphry Ward (1889),177.
See also: | Age (8)
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result. (31 Oct 1852)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 30.
[I]t is truth alone—scientific, established, proved, and rational truth—which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'—but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest—it is in reason and in science. (15 Nov 1876)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 234.
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... (1 Sep 1875)
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, trans. Humphry Ward (1893), 225.
…the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Amiel's Journal The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel (22 Aug 1873), trans. By Mrs Humphry Ward (1889), Vol 2., 153.
See also: | Physician (109)
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