You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.


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HENRI AMIEL
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE
To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON
Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI
If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC
• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI