Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 48
... fact , not unlike the changing of swords in " Hamlet , " that the abstract minds , those which move from ideas to facts , are always fighting on behalf of concrete reality ; while the concrete minds , which move from facts to ideas ...
... fact , not unlike the changing of swords in " Hamlet , " that the abstract minds , those which move from ideas to facts , are always fighting on behalf of concrete reality ; while the concrete minds , which move from facts to ideas ...
Page 268
... fact , and a fact which postu- lates a meaning in the history of the universe . My thought is straying in vague paths : why ? because I have no creed . All my studies end in notes of interroga- tion , and that I may not draw premature ...
... fact , and a fact which postu- lates a meaning in the history of the universe . My thought is straying in vague paths : why ? because I have no creed . All my studies end in notes of interroga- tion , and that I may not draw premature ...
Page 313
... fact or the rectification of a date . And on this point I am very much with him , for a beautiful piece of writing is beautiful by virtue of a kind of truth which is truer than any mere record of authentic facts . Rousseau also thought ...
... fact or the rectification of a date . And on this point I am very much with him , for a beautiful piece of writing is beautiful by virtue of a kind of truth which is truer than any mere record of authentic facts . Rousseau also thought ...
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