Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Iron

  Entry for December 17, 1856. "Journal Intime". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1882.

• If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Ignorance, Class

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

• Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Sacrifice, Law

• Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Truth Is

• The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Fire, Feelings

• Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Play

• A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Blow

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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