Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page lii
... divine . Nothing finite is true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is noth- ing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with ...
... divine . Nothing finite is true , is interesting , is worthy to fix my attention . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is noth- ing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with ...
Page xci
... to possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a life- -a higher and INTRODUCTION . xci.
... to possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a life- -a higher and INTRODUCTION . xci.
Page 34
... divine . ' Nothing finite is true , is interesting , or worthy to fix my atten- tion . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is nothing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with ...
... divine . ' Nothing finite is true , is interesting , or worthy to fix my atten- tion . All that is particular is exclusive , and all that is exclusive repels me . There is nothing non - exclusive but the All ; my end is communion with ...
Page 36
... The tameless liberty , the divine dignity of the individual spirit , expanding till it admits neither any limit nor anything foreign to itself , and conscious of a strength instinct with creative such is the 36 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... The tameless liberty , the divine dignity of the individual spirit , expanding till it admits neither any limit nor anything foreign to itself , and conscious of a strength instinct with creative such is the 36 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 40
... tortuous , oblique , ignoble . But I can- • not maintain such a mood . mood of vengeance - for long . which is a This world is a world of men , and these men are our brothers . We must not banish from us the divine 40 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... tortuous , oblique , ignoble . But I can- • not maintain such a mood . mood of vengeance - for long . which is a This world is a world of men , and these men are our brothers . We must not banish from us the divine 40 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
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