Henri Frederic Amiel Able Quotations

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.