Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Religious, Character

• Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Civilization, Firsts

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Character, Men

• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Doubt, Shade

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