 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 322 pages
...spiritualisation of matter. It is a momentary transfiguration of the privileged object or being—a token fallen from heaven to earth in order to remind...things: it is their type, their sum, their raison tfiitrc, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...ideal is the eternal element hi perishable things : it is their type, their sum, their raison d'dtre, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore...once the most exact and the most condensed expression ut them. llth April 1865. — I have been measuring and making a trial of the new gray plaid which... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...setting free of the soul, which through them gains force to make its envelope transparent and slu'ne through upon all around it. Beauty is, then, a phenomenon...things : it is their type, their sum, their raison c, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most condensed... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...augment his store of being, to double the intensity of his life, to reveal him to himself, to ennoble him and transfigure him. Happiness does away with ugliness,...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... | |
 | William Angus Knight - Aesthetics - 1891 - 320 pages
...and supreme joy can make the most simple mortal dazzlingly beautiful. . . . The ideal is, after all, truer than the real ; for the ideal is the eternal...perishable things, it is their type, their sum, their ration d'etre, and the most exact and the most condensed expression of them." April 9, 1868 — "I... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 428 pages
...mortal dazzlingly beautiful. Man, therefore, is never more truly man than in these divine states. t The ideal, after all, is truer than the real : for...most exact and the most condensed expression of them. llth April 1865. — I have been measuring and making a trial of the new gray plaid which is to take... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Devotional literature - 1895 - 386 pages
...drift of your character. Show me what your ideal is, and I will show you what you yet may be. VH.SJ. The ideal, after all, is truer than the real : for...ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. AMIEL. From dreams of bliss shall men awake One day, but not to weep : The dreams remain ; they only... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - Drama - 1898 - 208 pages
...express his own ideal must be the artist's work." 1 Of the ideal in this sense Amiel's remark is true: "The ideal, after all, is truer than the real; for...the most exact and the most condensed expression of them."3 The danger in this selective art-process is evi dent, especially if we note some phases of... | |
 | Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - Drama - 1898 - 218 pages
...express his own ideal must be the artist's work."1 Of the ideal in this sense Amiel's remark is true :\" The ideal, after all, is truer than the real ; for...things: it is their type, their sum, their raison d 'Stre, their formula in the book of the Creator, and therefore at once the most exact and the most... | |
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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... 
