Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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... justice will gain . Is not universal levelling - down the law of nature , and when all has been levelled will not all have been destroyed ? So that the world is striving with all its force for the destruction of what it has itself ...
... justice will gain . Is not universal levelling - down the law of nature , and when all has been levelled will not all have been destroyed ? So that the world is striving with all its force for the destruction of what it has itself ...
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... justice done to it , and which , were it another's , I should often quote . I like to feel that in it I have attained to that relative truth which may be defined as consistency with self , the harmony of appearance with real- ity , of ...
... justice done to it , and which , were it another's , I should often quote . I like to feel that in it I have attained to that relative truth which may be defined as consistency with self , the harmony of appearance with real- ity , of ...
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... justice and mercy , may meet together and become one , in man and in God . Christianity is Jesus sciousness of Jesus . What is specific in - -the religious con- The sacred sense of his absolute union with God through perfect love and ...
... justice and mercy , may meet together and become one , in man and in God . Christianity is Jesus sciousness of Jesus . What is specific in - -the religious con- The sacred sense of his absolute union with God through perfect love and ...
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... justice in its ad- miration , and has referred to one single benefactor the whole of those benefits which are its heritage from the past . The conversion of ecclesiastical and con- fessional Christianity into historical Christi- anity ...
... justice in its ad- miration , and has referred to one single benefactor the whole of those benefits which are its heritage from the past . The conversion of ecclesiastical and con- fessional Christianity into historical Christi- anity ...
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... justice , of which they are but two special forms . Self- interest is an inexhaustible source of con- venient illusions . The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily - small . What governs men is the fear of 20 AMIEL'S ...
... justice , of which they are but two special forms . Self- interest is an inexhaustible source of con- venient illusions . The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily - small . What governs men is the fear of 20 AMIEL'S ...
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