Famous quotes containing the word amiel:
“If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
“Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faultsa gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)
“Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (18211881)