Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 29
... infinite contest , interminable struggle , and a success for ever threatened . And if this is life , is not Buddha right in regarding life as synonymous with evil , since it means perpetual restlessness and endless war ? Repose ...
... infinite contest , interminable struggle , and a success for ever threatened . And if this is life , is not Buddha right in regarding life as synonymous with evil , since it means perpetual restlessness and endless war ? Repose ...
Page 32
... infinite is in the religious state . Religion differs from philosophy as the simple and spontaneous self differs from the reflecting self , as synthetic intuition differs from intellectual analysis . We are initiated into the religious ...
... infinite is in the religious state . Religion differs from philosophy as the simple and spontaneous self differs from the reflecting self , as synthetic intuition differs from intellectual analysis . We are initiated into the religious ...
Page 43
... not in its purpose . It is rather the sense of the absolute and the infinite reducing to their proper value and relegating to their proper place the finite and the relative . But here , in the same way , my ambition AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 43.
... not in its purpose . It is rather the sense of the absolute and the infinite reducing to their proper value and relegating to their proper place the finite and the relative . But here , in the same way , my ambition AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 43.
Page 57
... infinite passion and su- preme happiness . the echoes of Paradise in the soul ; memo- ries of ideal spheres , whose sad sweetness ravishes and intoxicates the heart . Plato ! O Pythagoras ! ages ago you heard these harmonies ...
... infinite passion and su- preme happiness . the echoes of Paradise in the soul ; memo- ries of ideal spheres , whose sad sweetness ravishes and intoxicates the heart . Plato ! O Pythagoras ! ages ago you heard these harmonies ...
Page 58
... infinite as the beautiful that we yearn for . It is not being , or the limits of being , which weigh upon us ; it is evil , in us and without us . It is not at all necessary to be great , so long as we are in harmony with the order of ...
... infinite as the beautiful that we yearn for . It is not being , or the limits of being , which weigh upon us ; it is evil , in us and without us . It is not at all necessary to be great , so long as we are in harmony with the order of ...
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