Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Person · Open Library

Born

1821

Died

1881

Works

74

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Australia

Active from

1979-08-13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,559x

2. Sorafenib in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma

   · 2008 · cited 11,233x

3. VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

   · 2016 · cited 9,639x

4. 2010 Rheumatoid arthritis classification criteria: An American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism collaborative initiative

   · 2010 · cited 7,610x

5. Local compositions in thermodynamic excess functions for liquid mixtures

   · 1968 · cited 6,318x

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Quotes

• “There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling except in the infinite; for the soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me. There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.”
• “I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.”
• “Uncertainty is the refuge of hope. — Amiel's journal; the Journal intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel 1890 (p.368)”
• “It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.”
• “At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.”
• “I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Henri

Gender

male

Citizenship

Switzerland

Place of birth

Geneva

Place of death

Geneva

Occupation

translator

Employer

University of Geneva

Languages spoken

Standard High German

Movement

German idealism

Image

Henry-Frederic Amiel by François Artus.png

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