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Page ix
... truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes ...
... truth to artistic effect , we have both the perfect mirror of a modern mind of the best type , matured by the best modern culture , and also a striking picture of the sufferings which beset the sterility of genius . These two volumes ...
Page x
... truth of this , as it applies to myself ! ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I cannot sup- pose that so peculiar a psychological revelation will enjoy a X ...
... truth of this , as it applies to myself ! ' It is not , however , with the view of thrusting my egotism upon you that I have ventured upon addressing you . As I cannot sup- pose that so peculiar a psychological revelation will enjoy a X ...
Page xxi
... truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and ...
... truth , were all offended by the noise , the narrowness , the dogmatism of the triumphant democracy . So that there was no making up on the one side for what he had lost on the other , and he proudly resigned himself to an isolation and ...
Page xxv
... truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expression ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and temporary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how is ...
... truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expression ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and temporary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all , how is ...
Page xxviii
... life , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endangered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of specula- tive truth some barrier of sense and matter to give xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
... life , with its boundless horizons and its indescribable exaltations , seems endangered . Is he not about to place between himself and the forms of specula- tive truth some barrier of sense and matter to give xxviii AMIEL'S JOURNAL.
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Page 168 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 289 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 304 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page xli - Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Page 9 - Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid.
Page 24 - Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image. Thus we have all a cure of souls. Every man is a...
Page 85 - Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front, Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime, Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime, Ayant devant les yeux sans cesse, nuit et jour, Ou quelque saint labeur ou quelque grand amour.
Page 299 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee ? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee ? Seek, seeker, in thyself; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page 301 - In eurem Namen, Mütter, die ihr thront Im Grenzenlosen, ewig einsam wohnt, Und doch gesellig. Euer Haupt umschweben Des Lebens Bilder, regsam, ohne Leben. Was einmal war, in allem Glanz und Schein, Es regt sich dort; denn es will ewig sein.
Page 110 - JJ Rousseau is an ancestor in all things. It was he who founded travelling on foot before Topffer, reverie before Rene, literary botany before George Sand, the worship of nature before Bernardin de S.