To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Henri Frederic AmielMother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.
Henri Frederic AmielThe 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 AmielIf 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