Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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Page 259
... things , ignores their shades of difference , and is an obstacle to all sensible criticism and all calm judgment . The " Ewig - Weibliche " favors exaggeration , mysticism , senti- mentalism - all that excites and startles . It is the ...
... things , ignores their shades of difference , and is an obstacle to all sensible criticism and all calm judgment . The " Ewig - Weibliche " favors exaggeration , mysticism , senti- mentalism - all that excites and startles . It is the ...
Page 324
... things are expressed in it at once . To understand things we must have been once in them and then have come out of them ; so that first there must be captivity and then deliverance , illusion followed by disillusion , enthusiasm by ...
... things are expressed in it at once . To understand things we must have been once in them and then have come out of them ; so that first there must be captivity and then deliverance , illusion followed by disillusion , enthusiasm by ...
Page 342
... things . The Quakers will not see that there is a law of tempests in history as in nature . The revilers of war are like the revilers of thun- der , storms , and volcanoes ; they know not what they do . Civilization tends to corrupt men ...
... things . The Quakers will not see that there is a law of tempests in history as in nature . The revilers of war are like the revilers of thun- der , storms , and volcanoes ; they know not what they do . Civilization tends to corrupt men ...
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