Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2 |
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Page 30
... matter ? What is to be , will be . And what will be , will be for the best . Faith in good , - perhaps the individual wants nothing more for his passage through life . Only he must have taken sides with Socrates , Plato , Aristotle ...
... matter ? What is to be , will be . And what will be , will be for the best . Faith in good , - perhaps the individual wants nothing more for his passage through life . Only he must have taken sides with Socrates , Plato , Aristotle ...
Page 35
... matters it is holiness which gives authority ; it is love , or the power of devo- tion and sacrifice , which goes to the heart , which moves and persuades . What all religious , poetical , pure , and tender souls are least able to ...
... matters it is holiness which gives authority ; it is love , or the power of devo- tion and sacrifice , which goes to the heart , which moves and persuades . What all religious , poetical , pure , and tender souls are least able to ...
Page 38
... matter . A church lives by what is positive , and this positive element necessarily limits investigation . People confound the right of the individual , which is to be free , with the duty of the institution , which is to be something ...
... matter . A church lives by what is positive , and this positive element necessarily limits investigation . People confound the right of the individual , which is to be free , with the duty of the institution , which is to be something ...
Page 47
... matter of psychology , temperament , a matter of sen- sation or æsthetics ; character alone is a matter of morals . Liberty and the use of it count for nothing in the first two ele- ments of our being ; character is a historical fruit ...
... matter of psychology , temperament , a matter of sen- sation or æsthetics ; character alone is a matter of morals . Liberty and the use of it count for nothing in the first two ele- ments of our being ; character is a historical fruit ...
Page 82
... matter ? The whole is still nothing but a fluttering of the infi- nitely little , the insignificant repetition of an invariable theme . In truth , whether the individual exists or no , the difference is so absolutely imperceptible in ...
... matter ? The whole is still nothing but a fluttering of the infi- nitely little , the insignificant repetition of an invariable theme . In truth , whether the individual exists or no , the difference is so absolutely imperceptible in ...
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