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Page vii
... philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material ...
... philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material ...
Page xix
... philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful development of his gifts . Unfortunately the appointment , instead of the foundation and sup- port , was to be the stumblingblock of his career INTRODUCTION xix.
... philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful development of his gifts . Unfortunately the appointment , instead of the foundation and sup- port , was to be the stumblingblock of his career INTRODUCTION xix.
Page xxv
... philosopher has always tended to become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily ...
... philosopher has always tended to become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily ...
Page xxxi
... Church , which had been the centre of the national life during three centuries of honourable history , Amiel the philosopher , the cosmopolitan , threw himself ardently on to the side of the opponents of separation INTRODUCTION XXXI.
... Church , which had been the centre of the national life during three centuries of honourable history , Amiel the philosopher , the cosmopolitan , threw himself ardently on to the side of the opponents of separation INTRODUCTION XXXI.
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... philosopher ; there are others , though not many , into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept , dulling the edge of the sentences , and retarding the develop- ment of the thought . When all deductions have been made ...
... philosopher ; there are others , though not many , into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept , dulling the edge of the sentences , and retarding the develop- ment of the thought . When all deductions have been made ...
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Page 168 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 289 - ... la prier, La cruelle qu'elle est se bouche les oreilles Et nous laisse crier. Le pauvre en sa cabane, où le chaume le couvre, Est sujet à ses lois; Et la garde qui veille aux barrières du Louvre N'en défend point nos rois. De murmurer contre elle et perdre patience, II est mal à propos; Vouloir ce que Dieu veut est la seule science Qui nous met en repos.
Page 244 - Chacun se réveille à ce son, Les Brebis, le Chien, le Garçon. Le pauvre Loup, dans cet esclandre, Empêché par son hoqueton, Ne put ni fuir ni se défendre. Toujours par quelque endroit fourbes se laissent prendre. Quiconque est Loup agisse en Loup : C'est le plus certain de beaucoup.
Page 304 - Entre toutes les différentes expressions qui peuvent rendre une seule de nos pensées, il n'y en a qu'une qui soit la bonne. On ne la rencontre pas toujours en parlant ou en écrivant ; il est vrai néanmoins qu'elle existe, que tout ce qui ne l'est point est faible, et ne satisfait point un homme d'esprit qui veut se faire entendre.
Page 299 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee? Seek, seeker, in thyself ; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page xli - Christianity is above all religious, and religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits, a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.
Page 2 - Never to tire, never to grow cold ; to be patient, sympathetic, tender ; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart ; to hope always, like God ; to love always, — this is duty.
Page 9 - 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 enough from the irreparable ; practical life makes me afraid.
Page 105 - The ideal, after all, is truer than the real : for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things : it is their type, their sum, their raison d'&tre, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most condensed expression of them.
Page 182 - It is in the novel that the average vulgarity of German society, and its inferiority to the societies of France and England are most clearly visible. The notion of a thing's jarring on the taste is wanting to German aesthetics.