Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page liii
... ideal standing - point , this invisible threshold , as it were , whence one hears the impetuous passage of time , rushing and foaming as it flows out into the changeless ocean of eternity . After all the bewildering distractions of life ...
... ideal standing - point , this invisible threshold , as it were , whence one hears the impetuous passage of time , rushing and foaming as it flows out into the changeless ocean of eternity . After all the bewildering distractions of life ...
Page liv
... ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all ...
... ideal truths for which neither language nor institutions provide any adequate expres- sion ! How is it possible to take seriously what is so manifestly relative and tempo- rary as the various existing forms of human activity ? Above all ...
Page lvii
... ideal conceptions , helped by the natural accompaniment of such a tyr- anny , a critical sense of abnormal acute- ness , - stood between him and everything healing and restoring . ' I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and ...
... ideal conceptions , helped by the natural accompaniment of such a tyr- anny , a critical sense of abnormal acute- ness , - stood between him and everything healing and restoring . ' I am afraid of an imperfect , a faulty synthesis , and ...
Page lviii
... ideal . ' And so one thing after an- other is put away . Family life attracted him perpetually . I cannot escape , ' he writes , from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within a common ...
... ideal . ' And so one thing after an- other is put away . Family life attracted him perpetually . I cannot escape , ' he writes , from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within a common ...
Page xcv
... ideal which gives a fundamental unity to his inner life , he is the type of a generation universally touched with doubt , and yet as sensitive to the need of faith as any that have gone before it ; more widely conscious than its ...
... ideal which gives a fundamental unity to his inner life , he is the type of a generation universally touched with doubt , and yet as sensitive to the need of faith as any that have gone before it ; more widely conscious than its ...
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adore ćsthetics Amiel Atheism beauty become believe charm Châteaubriand Christianity Church conscience consciousness critical death desire destiny divine doubt dream duty eternal everything evil existence faith feel force France Freethinkers Freethought French friends Geneva Genevese Genghis Khan genius George Sand German give Goethe happiness harmony heart heaven HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL hope human idea ideal illusion imagination impression individual infinite inner instinct intellectual Journal Intime justice kind labour Liberal Christianity liberty literary literature contrasted living Madame de Staël Maine de Biran matter melancholy ment mind monad moral mystery nature ness never once one's oneself ourselves passion peace Pensées perfection philosophy poet poetry possess realise reality religion religious Rousseau Sainte-Beuve Scherer Schopenhauer secret seems sense Shibboleth society soul speak spirit talent things thought tion true truth understand universal Victor Cherbuliez Victor Hugo victory whole word writer