Henri Frédéric AmielThinkers

Action is only coarsened thought.

Common sense is the measure of the possible... it is composed of experience and pre-vision... it is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

A Decision is deciding to accept regret. As such, the man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

The Dream is an excursion into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

The Dream is excursion into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Expediency is the art of rushing to the defence of the winning side.

Folklore is the unofficial heritage of a people.

Gratitude is shown in acts whereas thankfulness may consist merely of words.

Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness while thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh: that is to s-ay, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death.

Jealousy is a terrible thing in that it resembles love, only it is precisely love's contrary. Instead of wishing for the welfare of the object loved, it desires the dependence of that object upon itself, and its own triumph.

Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.