Order is power.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

About Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frédéric Amiel (French: [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedeʁik amjɛl]; 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

—Henri Frederic Amiel

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More quotations tagged with “order”

A place for everything, everything in its place.

—Benjamin Franklin

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

—Theodor W. Adorno

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I cry out for order and find it only in art.

I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

—Edmund Burke

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