 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...'hope. All the activity of man, all his efforts and all his enterprises, presuppose a hope in him uf attaining an end. Once kill this hope and his movements become senseless, spasmodic, and convulsive, lil: those of some one falling from a height To strugilf with the inevitable has something childish... | |
 | Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1895 - 424 pages
...bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul — hope. AH the activity of man, all his efforts and all his enterprises,...action would no doubt be a grotesque prayer. Very well I but when a man loses faith in the efficacy of his efforts, when he says to himself, ' You are incapable... | |
 | Alexander Faulkner Shand - Character - 1920 - 628 pages
...the presence or absence of one single element in the soul— hope. All the activities of man . . . pre-suppose a hope in him of attaining an end. Once...senseless, spasmodic and convulsive, like those of someone falling from a height." 2 " What makes old age so sad," says Richter, " is not that our joys... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell Garnett - Education - 1921 - 538 pages
...presence or absence of one single element in the soul — hope. All the activities of man...pre-suppose a hope in him of attaining an end. Once kill this...senseless, spasmodic and convulsive, like those of someone falling from a height.'* And this hope must, we repeat, be focussed in something beyond the... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - History - 2002 - 146 pages
...At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - hope. All the activity of man, all his efforts and all his...senseless, spasmodic and convulsive, like those of someone falling from a height. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL, AMIEL'S JOURNAL find security, stability and peace.... | |
 | George Alonzo Mirick - Education - 1923 - 346 pages
...the presence or absence of one single element in the soul — hope. All the activities of man . . . presuppose a hope in him of attaining an end. Once...convulsive, like those of some one falling from a height.* No one can strive for the fulfillment of a purpose, if its fulfillment will not bring him satisfaction.... | |
 | Edgar Bradshaw Castle - Pamphlets - 1947 - 530 pages
...presence or absence of one single element in the soul — hope. All the activities of man...pre-suppose a hope in him of attaining an end. Once kill this...senseless, spasmodic and convulsive, like those of someone falling from a height.'* And this hope must, we repeat, be focussed in something beyond the... | |
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At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul — hope. All the activity of man, all his efforts and all his enterprises, presuppose a hope in him of attaining an end. Once kill this hope and his movements... 