Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 4
... recognised order , we can only compare them to the best that exists , and then they naturally seem to us more mediocre , more ugly , more deformed than before . If the passion for equality potentially raises the average , it really ...
... recognised order , we can only compare them to the best that exists , and then they naturally seem to us more mediocre , more ugly , more deformed than before . If the passion for equality potentially raises the average , it really ...
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... recognise it in time , and suit thought and action to the fact ! 13th November 1868. I am reading part of two books by Charles Secrétan 2 ( Re- cherches sur la Méthode , 1857 ; Précis élémentaire de Philosophie , 1868 ) . The philosophy ...
... recognise it in time , and suit thought and action to the fact ! 13th November 1868. I am reading part of two books by Charles Secrétan 2 ( Re- cherches sur la Méthode , 1857 ; Précis élémentaire de Philosophie , 1868 ) . The philosophy ...
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... recognise nor admit it . And thus a prejudice of self - love protects all the prejudices of the understanding , which are themselves the result of a stratagem of the ego . Humanity has always slain or persecuted those who have disturbed ...
... recognise nor admit it . And thus a prejudice of self - love protects all the prejudices of the understanding , which are themselves the result of a stratagem of the ego . Humanity has always slain or persecuted those who have disturbed ...
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... recognise the unlikeness between us . Pure intelligence and solitary labour might easily lead me to his point of view ; but once appeal to the heart , and I feel the con- templative attitude untenable . Pity , good- ness , charity , and ...
... recognise the unlikeness between us . Pure intelligence and solitary labour might easily lead me to his point of view ; but once appeal to the heart , and I feel the con- templative attitude untenable . Pity , good- ness , charity , and ...
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... recognised this law and accepted this balance of things . The same thing may be a good in the woman and an evil in the man , may be strength in her , weakness in him . There is then a feminine and a masculine morality , preparatory ...
... recognised this law and accepted this balance of things . The same thing may be a good in the woman and an evil in the man , may be strength in her , weakness in him . There is then a feminine and a masculine morality , preparatory ...
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