Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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... principle is about as true as the other . Art no doubt will lose , but 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 ...
... principle is about as true as the other . Art no doubt will lose , but 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 ...
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... principle of the eternal Gospel , we shall have reached our goal , for in it is the punctum saliens of pure religion . Perhaps the extraordinary will take the place of the supernatural , and the great geniuses of the world will come to ...
... principle of the eternal Gospel , we shall have reached our goal , for in it is the punctum saliens of pure religion . Perhaps the extraordinary will take the place of the supernatural , and the great geniuses of the world will come to ...
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... principle of the common philosophy , or that truth is made for us but not we for truth . As this fact is humiliating , the majority of people will neither recognise nor admit it . And thus a prejudice of self - love protects all the ...
... principle of the common philosophy , or that truth is made for us but not we for truth . As this fact is humiliating , the majority of people will neither recognise nor admit it . And thus a prejudice of self - love protects all the ...
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... principle of order and of goodness . Religious emotion makes man conscious of himself ; he finds his own place within the infinite unity , and it is this per- ception which is sacred . But in spite of these reservations I am much ...
... principle of order and of goodness . Religious emotion makes man conscious of himself ; he finds his own place within the infinite unity , and it is this per- ception which is sacred . But in spite of these reservations I am much ...
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... principle of Science to be the same as the principle of the Church , which is a mistake . They will not see that Religion is different from Phi- losophy , and that the one seeks union by faith , while the other upholds the solitary ...
... principle of Science to be the same as the principle of the Church , which is a mistake . They will not see that Religion is different from Phi- losophy , and that the one seeks union by faith , while the other upholds the solitary ...
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