Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page 29
... Schopenhauer - has best understood the universe ? Is it the healthy man or the sick man who sees best to the bottom of things ? which is in the right ? Ah ! the problem of grief and evil is and will be always the greatest enigma of ...
... Schopenhauer - has best understood the universe ? Is it the healthy man or the sick man who sees best to the bottom of things ? which is in the right ? Ah ! the problem of grief and evil is and will be always the greatest enigma of ...
Page 44
... Schopenhauer . 6 I have been think- ― 6 It has struck me and almost terrified me to see how well I represent Schopenhauer's typical man , for whom happiness is a chimera and suffer- ing a reality , ' for whom the negation of will and of ...
... Schopenhauer . 6 I have been think- ― 6 It has struck me and almost terrified me to see how well I represent Schopenhauer's typical man , for whom happiness is a chimera and suffer- ing a reality , ' for whom the negation of will and of ...
Page 45
... Schopenhauer is a man of powerful mind , who has put away from him all illu- sions , who professes Buddhism in the full flow of modern Germany , and absolute de- tachment of mind in the very midst of the nineteenth - century orgie . His ...
... Schopenhauer is a man of powerful mind , who has put away from him all illu- sions , who professes Buddhism in the full flow of modern Germany , and absolute de- tachment of mind in the very midst of the nineteenth - century orgie . His ...
Page 47
... Schopenhauer , character is identified with temperament just as will with passion . In short , he simplifies too much , and looks at man from that more elementary point of view which is only sufficient in the case of the animal . That ...
... Schopenhauer , character is identified with temperament just as will with passion . In short , he simplifies too much , and looks at man from that more elementary point of view which is only sufficient in the case of the animal . That ...
Page 48
... Schopenhauer breaks the current of his speculation with islands , strik- ing , original , and picturesque , which engrave themselves in the memory . It is the same difference as there is between Nicole and Pascal , between Bayle and ...
... Schopenhauer breaks the current of his speculation with islands , strik- ing , original , and picturesque , which engrave themselves in the memory . It is the same difference as there is between Nicole and Pascal , between Bayle and ...
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