 | 1909 - 1106 pages
...relations which develop around the first — all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes." But in vain. " Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid. 1 am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself. The ideal poisons for me all imperfect... | |
 | 1902 - 1492 pages
...Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary," writes Amiel, " repel and even terrify me. . . . The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough...the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid." Accordingly, men of this temperament are defeated in their search for beauty by an unconquerable shyness... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1886 - 536 pages
...of an imperfect, a faulty synthesis, and I linger in the provisional from timidity and from loyalty. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The ideal poisons for me all imperfect possession.' The Journal affords abundant proof of what high temper... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...moral relations which develop round the post—all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes.' But in vain. 'Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to lie free enough from the irreparable; practical life makes me afraid. I am distrustful of myself and... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...relations which develop round the post — all these ideas intoxicate mo sometimes.' But in vain. ' Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...character. The life of thought alone seems to me to luive enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - Unitarianism - 1886 - 592 pages
...cross. I have a heart too easily reached : despair is easy to me. What might be spoils me for what is. So that reality, the present, the irreparable, the...the irreparable : practical life makes me afraid." Poor man ! he is conscious enough of his own defect, •and, like all conscientious people, perhaps... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1886 - 438 pages
...They revealed a life-long intellectual struggle, the secret of which he has expressed as follows : " I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration,...the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid. I am distrustful of myself and of happiness, because I know myself." NY Evening Post, ' DESCRIPTION.... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...the hour of heroism and of genius.' 6th April 1851. — Was there ever anyone so vulnerable as I ? If I were a father how many griefs and vexations a...to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to he free enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid. And yet, at the same time, it... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...relations which develop round the first — all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes.' But in vain. ' Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary,...immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable ; practieal life mates me afraid. I am distrustful of myself and of happiness because I know myself.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1894 - 398 pages
...which would mortgage, as it were, his intellectual freedom. "The life of thought alone," he wrote, "seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity,...irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid." And yet he knew that a certain amount of practical life was essential even to a true intellectual life, only... | |
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Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration, and not enough character. The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free... 
