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.

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.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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.

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing