Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.
Henri Frederic AmielDreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.
Henri Frederic AmielOur dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.
Henri Frederic AmielBlessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic AmielOur true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.
Henri Frederic Amiel