Maxioms by Henri Frederic Amiel
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what read more
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing read more
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.
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in read more
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
