Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 20
... Perhaps the extraordinary will take the place of the supernatural , and the great geniuses of the world will come to be regarded as the messengers of God in history , as the providential revealers through whom the spirit of God works ...
... Perhaps the extraordinary will take the place of the supernatural , and the great geniuses of the world will come to be regarded as the messengers of God in history , as the providential revealers through whom the spirit of God works ...
Page 26
... perhaps more ? However it may be , men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth . Each one unwinds his own special reel of hope , and as soon as he has come to the end of it he sits him down to die , and lets his sons and ...
... perhaps more ? However it may be , men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth . Each one unwinds his own special reel of hope , and as soon as he has come to the end of it he sits him down to die , and lets his sons and ...
Page 30
... perhaps the individual wants nothing more for his passage through life . Only he must have taken sides with Socrates , Plato , Aristotle , and Zeno , against materialism , against the religion of accident and pessimism . Perhaps also he ...
... perhaps the individual wants nothing more for his passage through life . Only he must have taken sides with Socrates , Plato , Aristotle , and Zeno , against materialism , against the religion of accident and pessimism . Perhaps also he ...
Page 42
... Perhaps , on the whole , this defect has good in it . Though I am less of a man , I am perhaps nearer to the man ; perhaps rather more man . There is less of the individual , but more of the species , in me . My nature , which is 42 ...
... Perhaps , on the whole , this defect has good in it . Though I am less of a man , I am perhaps nearer to the man ; perhaps rather more man . There is less of the individual , but more of the species , in me . My nature , which is 42 ...
Page 46
... refined ; there is no change below the surface . Perhaps he confuses temperament , character , and in- dividuality ? I incline to think that in- dividuality is fatal and primitive , that temperament reaches far 46 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... refined ; there is no change below the surface . Perhaps he confuses temperament , character , and in- dividuality ? I incline to think that in- dividuality is fatal and primitive , that temperament reaches far 46 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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