Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Knowledge … is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams

No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

We are all gods, all forces of nature. We can destroy, we can build. We are like oceans and like fires.