Henri Quotes
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.
Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house.
There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.
All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
