{"id":607,"date":"2015-11-15T03:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T03:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/repeatright.com\/engine\/?p=607"},"modified":"2018-10-08T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:43:15","slug":"amiel-henri-frederic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.repeatright.com\/engine\/amiel-henri-frederic\/","title":{"rendered":"AMIEL, Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cA lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (22 January 1874) The Private Journal of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric <\/em>Amiel<\/em>, trans. Van Wyck Brooks & Charles Van Wyck Brooks, New York, NY: Macmillan Co., p. 407<\/p>\n

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\u201cMan defends himself as much as he can against truth, as a child does against a medicine, as the man of the Platonic cave does against the light. He does not willingly follow his path, he has to be dragged along backwards. This natural liking for the false has several causes: the inheritance of prejudices, which produces an unconscious habit, a slavery; the predominance of the imagination over the reason, which affects the understanding; the predominance of the passions over the conscience, which depraves the heart; the predominance of the will over the intelligence, which vitiates the character. A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt.\u201d (p. 407)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Editor\u2019s copy – The Private Journal of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (22 Jan. 1874 journal entry \u2013 book edition 1935) New York, Macmillan Co. \u2013 Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) No. 1258402<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cAction limits us; whereas in the state of contemplation we are endlessly expansive. Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (8 March 1868) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of <\/em>Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 208;\u00a0online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cLiberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates us on the ground. Action limits us; whereas in the state of contemplation we are endlessly expansive. Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.\u201d (p. 208)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Action+limits+us%22#v=snippet&q=%22Action%20limits%20us%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cAn error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (Undated entry \u2013 late 1852\/early 1853) Amiel\u2019s J<\/em>ournal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A.Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 49; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Action+limits+us%22#v=onepage&q=%22An%20error%20is%20the%20more%20dangerous%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cArt is simply the bringing into relief of the obscure thought of nature; a simplification of the lines, a falling into place of groups otherwise invisible. The fire of inspiration brings out, as it were, designs traced beforehand in sympathetic ink. The mysterious grows clear, the confused plain; what is complicated becomes simple \u2013 what is accidental, necessary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (25 November 1861) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal <\/em>Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 122; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cTo understand a drama requires the same mental operation as to understand an existence, a biography, a man. It is a putting back of the bird into the egg, of the plant into its seed, a reconstitution of the whole genesis of the being in question. Art is simply the bringing into relief of the obscure thought of nature; a simplification of the lines, a falling into place of groups otherwise invisible. The fire of inspiration brings out, as it were, designs traced beforehand in sympathetic ink. The mysterious grows clear, the confused plain; what is complicated becomes simple \u2013 what is accidental, necessary. In short, art reveals nature by interpreting its intentions and formulating its desires. Every ideal is the key of a long enigma. The great artist is the simplifier.\u201d (p. 122)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Action+limits+us%22#v=onepage&q=%22Art%20is%20simply%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cCleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (16 February 1868)\u00a0Amiel\u2019s J<\/em>ournal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A.Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 206; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cClever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness; every authority rouses their ridicule, every superstition amuses them, every convention moves them to contradiction. Only force finds favor in their eyes, and they have no toleration for anything that is not purely natural and spontaneous. And yet ten clever men are not worth one man of talent, nor ten men of talent worth one man of genius. And in the individual, feeling is more than cleverness, reason is worth as much as feeling, and conscience has it over reason. If, then, the clever man is not mockable<\/em>, he may at least be neither love, nor considered, nor esteemed. He may make himself feared, it is true, and force others to respect his independence; but his negative advantage, which is the result of a negative superiority, brings no happiness with it. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.\u201d (p. 206)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Charm+is+the+quality%22#v=onepage&q=%22Clever%20men%20will%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cDestiny has two ways of crushing us \u2013 by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (10 April 1881) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal <\/em>Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 471; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cLater. \u2013 What dupes we are of our own desires! \u2026Destiny has two ways of crushing us \u2013 by refusing our wises and by fulfilling them. But he who only wills what God wills escapes both catastrophes. \u2018All things work together for his good.\u2019\u2019 (p. 471)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Charm+is+the+quality%22#v=onepage&q=%22destiny%20has%20two%20ways%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cHeroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (1 October 1849) Amiel\u2019s J<\/em>ournal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A.Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 6; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cHeroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh \u2013 that is to say, over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation, and of death. There is no serious piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.\u201d (p. 6)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Action+limits+us%22#v=onepage&q=%22Heroism%20is%20the%20dazzling%22&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

“Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (16 December 1868) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal <\/em>Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 226; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cSerious and solemn words come naturally to the man who feels life escaping him, and the grave opening before him. The depths of his nature are then revealed; the Divine within him need no longer hide itself. Oh! do not let us wait to be just or pitiful or demonstrative towards those we love until they or we are struck down by illness or threatened with death! Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh! be swift to love, make haste to be kind!\u201d (p. 226)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=WUJcAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Action+limits+us%22#v=onepage&q=%22Life%20is%20short%22&f=fa<\/a>lse<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cSpite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (30 December 1850) Amiel\u2019s J<\/em>ournal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 5; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cSpite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source Note<\/em><\/strong>:<\/em> The journal entry above did not appear in the first English edition of Amiel\u2019s Journal<\/em>. In her preface to this second edition, translator Mary Ward notes that she \u201cinserted a good many new passages, taken from the last French edition.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: [Accessed June 2015] Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em> (1885 English translation) Google Books:\u00a0https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=jt0QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=Spite+is+anger+which+is+afraid<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cThe only true principal for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (Undated – 1863 or 1864) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal <\/em>Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 143; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cLiberty, equality \u2013 bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice, and justice towards the feeble becomes necessarily protection or kindness.\u201d (p. 143)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cThe test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (17 June 1852) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A.Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, pp. 39-40; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat the writer, the teacher, the pastor, the philosopher, has to do, is to defend humanity in man. Man! the true man, the ideal man! Such should be their motto, their rallying cry. War to all that debases, diminishes, hinders, and degrades him; protection for all that fortifies, ennobles, and raises him. The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.\u201d (pp. 39-40)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cTo do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (27 October 1856) Amiel\u2019s Journal: The Journal <\/em>Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 86; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635090-ac51″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

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\u201cTo know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong>, Swiss philosopher & author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (21 September 1874) Amiel\u2019s J<\/em>ournal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/em>, trans. Mary A. Humphry Ward, London: MacMillan & Co., 1885 edition, p. 345; online via University of Michigan & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Resources<\/h4>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”none” el_class=”Wrapper-Author-Resources”]Learn more about Henri Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Amiel<\/strong> <\/span>| Here are a few good places to start –<\/p>\n