[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
Henri Frederic AmielThe musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.
Henri Frederic AmielA thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
Henri Frederic AmielThe ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.
Henri Frederic Amiel