Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 12
... liberty , wisely under- stood , is but a voluntary obedience to the universal laws of life . My life has reached its month of September . May I recognise it in time , and suit thought and action to the fact ! 13th November 1868. I am ...
... liberty , wisely under- stood , is but a voluntary obedience to the universal laws of life . My life has reached its month of September . May I recognise it in time , and suit thought and action to the fact ! 13th November 1868. I am ...
Page 13
... liberty , and defines the X in his way ; so that he is at once too free and not free enough ; too free in respect to historical Christianity , not free enough in respect to Christianity as a par- ticular church . He does not satisfy the ...
... liberty , and defines the X in his way ; so that he is at once too free and not free enough ; too free in respect to historical Christianity , not free enough in respect to Christianity as a par- ticular church . He does not satisfy the ...
Page 37
... liberty and pure authority . It is , in fact , a provisional stage , founded on the worship of the Bible — that is to say , on the idea of a written revela- tion , and of a book divinely inspired , and therefore authoritative . When ...
... liberty and pure authority . It is , in fact , a provisional stage , founded on the worship of the Bible — that is to say , on the idea of a written revela- tion , and of a book divinely inspired , and therefore authoritative . When ...
Page 38
... Liberty is the means whereby we arrive at an enlightened faith - granted ; but an assembly of people agreeing only upon this criterion and this method could not possibly found a church , for they might differ completely as to the ...
... Liberty is the means whereby we arrive at an enlightened faith - granted ; but an assembly of people agreeing only upon this criterion and this method could not possibly found a church , for they might differ completely as to the ...
Page 47
... Liberty and the use of it count for nothing in the first two ele- ments of our being ; character is a historical fruit , and the result of a man's biography . - For Schopenhauer , character is identified with temperament just as will ...
... Liberty and the use of it count for nothing in the first two ele- ments of our being ; character is a historical fruit , and the result of a man's biography . - For Schopenhauer , character is identified with temperament just as will ...
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