 Alas, whatever one may say or do, wisdom, justice, reason, and goodness will never be anything more than special cases and the heritage of a few elect souls. Moral and intellectual harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great...  Journal: The Journal Intime - Page 105by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great price, an isolated chef d'auvre. All that can be expected from the most perfect institutions...revolutions which have only an importance of the second order—an importance which I do not wish either to diminish or to ignore, but an importance which,... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 560 pages
...harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great price, an isolated chef d'osuvre. All that can be expected from the most perfect institutions...genius, grace and beauty, will always constitute a noblesst such as no form of government can manufacture. It is of no use, therefore, to excite oneself... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great price, an isolated chef d'muvrc. All that can be expected from the most perfect institutions...excellent individual. Virtue and genius, grace and bcauty, will always constitute a noblesse such as no form of government can manufacture. It is of no... | |
 | Ethics - 1904 - 214 pages
...concerning which there are many opinions, is an attribute of the gods not given to man. — Plato. Evening. All that can be expected from the most perfect institutions...that they should produce the excellent individual. — Amiel's Journal. AUGUST 17. Morning. An old foundation is worthy of all respect, but it must not... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great price, an isolated chef d'ceuvre.1 All that can be expected from the most perfect institutions...grace and beauty, will always constitute a noblesse 2 such as no form of government can manufacture. 24. Society rests upon conscience and not upon science.... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...harmony, excellence in all its forms, will always be a rarity of great price, an isolated chef d'ceuvre.1 All that can be expected from the most pe'rfect institutions...grace and beauty, will always constitute a noblesse 2 such as no form of government can manufacture. 24 Society rests upon conscience and not upon science.... | |
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