Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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Page 26
... evil - perhaps more ? However it may be , men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth . Each one unwinds his own special reel of hope , and as soon as he has come to the end of it he sits him down to die , and lets his sons ...
... evil - perhaps more ? However it may be , men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth . Each one unwinds his own special reel of hope , and as soon as he has come to the end of it he sits him down to die , and lets his sons ...
Page 29
... evil is and will be always the greatest enigma of being , only second to the existence of being itself . The common faith of humanity has assumed the victory of good over evil . But if good consists not in the result of victory , but in ...
... evil is and will be always the greatest enigma of being , only second to the existence of being itself . The common faith of humanity has assumed the victory of good over evil . But if good consists not in the result of victory , but in ...
Page 44
... evil and an- nihilation a good lies at the root of the system , and this axiom I have never dared to enunciate in any general way , although I have admitted it here and there in individ- - ual cases . - What I still like in 44 AMIEL'S ...
... evil and an- nihilation a good lies at the root of the system , and this axiom I have never dared to enunciate in any general way , although I have admitted it here and there in individ- - ual cases . - What I still like in 44 AMIEL'S ...
Page 52
... hides from us the horror of existence and makes life tol- . erable to us , then existence is a snare and life an evil . Like the Greek Annikeris , we - ought to counsel suicide , or rather with Buddha 52 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
... hides from us the horror of existence and makes life tol- . erable to us , then existence is a snare and life an evil . Like the Greek Annikeris , we - ought to counsel suicide , or rather with Buddha 52 AMIEL'S JOURNAL .
Page 56
... evil because they are small , and in this weakness is contained the germ of our defeat . Principiis obsta · - this maxim dutifully followed would preserve us from almost all our catastrophes . - We will have no other master but our ...
... evil because they are small , and in this weakness is contained the germ of our defeat . Principiis obsta · - this maxim dutifully followed would preserve us from almost all our catastrophes . - We will have no other master but our ...
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