Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 6
... tion , so that the object of the simultaneous or successive competition of mankind in history would be the extraction of the max- imum of humanity from a given amount of animality . Education , morals , and politics would be only ...
... tion , so that the object of the simultaneous or successive competition of mankind in history would be the extraction of the max- imum of humanity from a given amount of animality . Education , morals , and politics would be only ...
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... tion , and that my faculties are declining . I remember that I am forty - seven years old , and that all my brood of youthful hopes has flown away . So that there is no de- ceiving myself as to the fate which awaits me : - - increasing ...
... tion , and that my faculties are declining . I remember that I am forty - seven years old , and that all my brood of youthful hopes has flown away . So that there is no de- ceiving myself as to the fate which awaits me : - - increasing ...
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... tion . The art of self - annihilation , of es- caping the world's vast machinery of suffering , and the misery of renewed exist- ence , the art of reaching Nirvâna , is to him the supreme art , the only means of deliverance . The ...
... tion . The art of self - annihilation , of es- caping the world's vast machinery of suffering , and the misery of renewed exist- ence , the art of reaching Nirvâna , is to him the supreme art , the only means of deliverance . The ...
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... tion and sacrifice , which goes to the heart , which moves and persuades . What all religious , poetical , pure , and tender souls are least able to pardon is the diminution or degradation of their ideal . We must never AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... tion and sacrifice , which goes to the heart , which moves and persuades . What all religious , poetical , pure , and tender souls are least able to pardon is the diminution or degradation of their ideal . We must never AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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... tion , and of a book divinely inspired , and therefore authoritative . When once this thesis has been relegated to the rank of a fiction Protestantism crumbles away . There is nothing for it but to retire upon natural religion , or the ...
... tion , and of a book divinely inspired , and therefore authoritative . When once this thesis has been relegated to the rank of a fiction Protestantism crumbles away . There is nothing for it but to retire upon natural religion , or the ...
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