Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 228
... passion are the foes of popular morality , it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the ... passion in man , a blind fierce passion , which is absurd enough to call itself a reason , whereas it is nothing but a force ...
... passion are the foes of popular morality , it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the ... passion in man , a blind fierce passion , which is absurd enough to call itself a reason , whereas it is nothing but a force ...
Page 272
... passion ; the instinct may be good , but the passion may be bad , and neither is the instinct capable of producing a clear idea , nor the passion of leading to a just resolution . A crowd is a material force , and the support of numbers ...
... passion ; the instinct may be good , but the passion may be bad , and neither is the instinct capable of producing a clear idea , nor the passion of leading to a just resolution . A crowd is a material force , and the support of numbers ...
Page 364
... passion which brings a will into play , which works an intelligence - and thus the organs which seem to be in the service of intelligence , are in reality only the agents of passion . For all the commoner sorts of being , determinism is ...
... passion which brings a will into play , which works an intelligence - and thus the organs which seem to be in the service of intelligence , are in reality only the agents of passion . For all the commoner sorts of being , determinism is ...
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