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Page 40
... critic neither concludes nor excludes ; his pleasure is to understand without believing , and to profit by the results of enthusiasm , while still maintaining a free mind , unem- barrassed by illusion . Such a mode of pro- ceeding has a ...
... critic neither concludes nor excludes ; his pleasure is to understand without believing , and to profit by the results of enthusiasm , while still maintaining a free mind , unem- barrassed by illusion . Such a mode of pro- ceeding has a ...
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... critics and the last representative of the epoch of literary taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the ... critic acts as a fulcrum for all the world . He represents the public judgment , that is to say the public reason ...
... critics and the last representative of the epoch of literary taste , the future belong- ing to the bookmakers and the ... critic acts as a fulcrum for all the world . He represents the public judgment , that is to say the public reason ...
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... critic rises to the true height of his literary priesthood , or , to put it less pompously , of his social function . By then only can he hope for insight into all the modes of being , and for mastery of all pos- sible shades of ...
... critic rises to the true height of his literary priesthood , or , to put it less pompously , of his social function . By then only can he hope for insight into all the modes of being , and for mastery of all pos- sible shades of ...
Page 107
... critics of our time call the modern spirit ; ' and only one tendency of the modern spirit— the wor- ship of nature . For Goethe stands outside all the social and political aspirations of the generality of mankind ; he takes no more ...
... critics of our time call the modern spirit ; ' and only one tendency of the modern spirit— the wor- ship of nature . For Goethe stands outside all the social and political aspirations of the generality of mankind ; he takes no more ...
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... critic and the philosopher who can pene- trate into all states of being , and realise their life from within . When the imagination shrinks in fear from the phantoms which it creates , it may be excused because it is imagination . But ...
... critic and the philosopher who can pene- trate into all states of being , and realise their life from within . When the imagination shrinks in fear from the phantoms which it creates , it may be excused because it is imagination . But ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel ..., Volume 2 Henri Frederic Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2016 |
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Popular passages
Page 64 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 234 - Chacun se réveille à ce son, Les Brebis, le Chien, le Garçon. Le pauvre Loup, dans cet esclandre, Empêché par son hoqueton, Ne put ni fuir ni se défendre. Toujours par quelque endroit fourbes se laissent prendre. Quiconque est Loup agisse en Loup : C'est le plus certain de beaucoup.
Page 362 - 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 360 - M'a dessillé les yeux, et me les vient d'ouvrir. Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis désabusée...
Page 191 - We must treat our subject brutally and not be always trembling lest we should be doing it a wrong. We must be able to transmute and absorb it into our own substance. This sort of confident effrontery is beyond me ; my whole nature tends to that impersonality which respects and subordinates itself to the object; it is love of truth which holds me back from concluding and deciding.
Page 359 - The courses of nature, and the prodigious injustices of man in society, affect him with neither horror nor awe. He will see no monster if he can help it.
Page 348 - March 21, 1881. — This invalid life is too Epicurean. For five or six weeks now I have done nothing else but wait, nurse myself, and amuse myself, and how weary one gets of it ! What I want is work. It is work which gives flavor to life. Mere existence without object and without effort is a poor thing. Idleness leads to languor, and languor to disgust.
Page 216 - I have been thinking a great deal of Victor Cherbuliez. Perhaps his novels make up the most disputable part of his work, — they are so much wanting in simplicity, feeling, reality. And yet what knowledge, style, wit, and subtlety — how much thought everywhere, and what mastery of language ! He astonishes one ; I cannot but admire him. Cherbuliez's mind is of immense range, clear-sighted, keen, full of resource ; he is an Alexandrian exquisite, substituting for the feeling which makes men earnest...
Page 117 - The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or rather, have made it desired. If we begin by overrating the being we love, we shall end by treating it with wholesale injustice. It is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief ; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Henri Frédéric Amiel Issue 11 of Macmillan's miniature series |
| Author | Henri Frédéric Amiel |
| Publisher | Macmillan & Company, 1896 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 10 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 402 pages |
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