Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 34
... conscience and reason hold sway over the effervescence of fancy and senti- mentality , then we shall be able not only to honour woman , but to make a serious end of gaining her consent and adhesion . Then she will be truly an equal , a ...
... conscience and reason hold sway over the effervescence of fancy and senti- mentality , then we shall be able not only to honour woman , but to make a serious end of gaining her consent and adhesion . Then she will be truly an equal , a ...
Page 35
... conscience by the indiscreet familiarities they take with the great mysteries of the inner life . They seem to be mere clever special pleaders , religious rhetoricians like the Greek sophists , rather than guides in the narrow road ...
... conscience by the indiscreet familiarities they take with the great mysteries of the inner life . They seem to be mere clever special pleaders , religious rhetoricians like the Greek sophists , rather than guides in the narrow road ...
Page 40
... conscience , but he is too clever to laugh at them . The true 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 ...
... conscience , but he is too clever to laugh at them . The true 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 ...
Page 58
... conscience , however , revolts against this law of nature , and to satisfy its own instinct of justice it has imagined two hypotheses , out of which it has made for itself a religion , the idea of an indi- vidual providence , and the ...
... conscience , however , revolts against this law of nature , and to satisfy its own instinct of justice it has imagined two hypotheses , out of which it has made for itself a religion , the idea of an indi- vidual providence , and the ...
Page 59
... conscience , conscience must be right . It is by no means necessary that the universe should exist , but it is necessary that justice should be done , and atheism is bound to explain the fixed obstinacy of conscience on this point ...
... conscience , conscience must be right . It is by no means necessary that the universe should exist , but it is necessary that justice should be done , and atheism is bound to explain the fixed obstinacy of conscience on this point ...
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