Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intimé of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Tr., with an Introducion and Notes |
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... thought which he afterward felt the need of checking and correcting . " This is very true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts " to write German in French , " and there are in his thought itself veins of ...
... thought which he afterward felt the need of checking and correcting . " This is very true . Amiel is no doubt often guilty , as M. Caro puts it , of attempts " to write German in French , " and there are in his thought itself veins of ...
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... thought ; thought become concrete , obscure , and unconscious . It seemed to me that our most trifling ac- tions , of eating , walking , and sleeping , were the condensa- tion of a multitude of truths and thoughts , and that the wealth ...
... thought ; thought become concrete , obscure , and unconscious . It seemed to me that our most trifling ac- tions , of eating , walking , and sleeping , were the condensa- tion of a multitude of truths and thoughts , and that the wealth ...
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... thought at once ; Nature is within time because she is only speech - the discursive unfolding of each thought contained within the infinite thought . But nature exhausts herself in this impossible task , for the analysis of the infinite ...
... thought at once ; Nature is within time because she is only speech - the discursive unfolding of each thought contained within the infinite thought . But nature exhausts herself in this impossible task , for the analysis of the infinite ...
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