Best quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel on Man

Checkout quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel on Man

• ‟ The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

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• ‟ The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

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• ‟ Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

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• ‟ It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

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• ‟ Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

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• ‟ The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

  - Henri Frederic Amiel