We must learn to look upon life as an apprenticeship to pro… - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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We must learn to look upon life as an apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, a perpetual diminution in our pretensions, our hopes, our powers, and our liberty.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss philosopher, mystic, poet and critic.

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Alternative Names: Henri-Frederic Amiel • Henri Frédéric Amiel • Amiel

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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.

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