Who is Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedeʁik amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.BiographyBorn in Geneva in 1821, Amiel was descended from a Huguenot family that moved to Switzerland following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.After losing his parents at an early age, Amiel travelled widely, became intimate with the intellectual leaders of Europe, and made a special study of German philosophy in Berlin. In 1849 he was appointed professor of aesthetics at the academy of Geneva, and in 1854 became professor of moral philosophy.These appointments, conferred by the democratic party, deprived him of the support of the aristocratic party, whose patronage dominated all the culture of the city. This isolation insp...Read Full Biography of Henri Frederic Amiel
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- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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