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" They are eager for gold, for power, for dominion; their aim is to crush men and to enslave nature. They show an obstinate interest in means, and have not a thought for the end. They confound being with individual being, and the expansion of the self with... "
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Page 427
by Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1885 - 487 pages
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1885 - 588 pages
...end. They confound being with individual being, and the expansion of the self with happiness, — that is to say, they do not live by the soul ; they ignore...because they are superficial. Why so much effort, noise, straggle, and greed ? — it is all a mere stunning and deafening of the self. When death comes they...
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Journal: The Journal Intime

Henri Frédéric Amiel - 1887 - 676 pages
...end. They confound being with individual being, and the expansion of the self with happiness, — that is to say, they do not live by the soul ; they ignore...the self. When death comes they recognise that it is so, — why not then admit it sooner ? Activity is only beautiful when it is holy — that is to say,...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1889 - 378 pages
...end. They confound being with individual being, and the expansion of the self with happiness, — that is to say, they do not live by the soul ; they ignore...the self. When death comes they recognise that it is so, — why not then admit it sooner ? Activity is only beautiful when it is holy — that is to say,...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1899 - 468 pages
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A Modern Plutarch: Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Ninteenth ...

John Cournos - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 360 pages
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A Modern Plutarch: Being an Account of Some Great Lives in the Ninteenth ...

John Cournos - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 494 pages
...prevailing "devouring and incessant activity" of the Western nations, and especially of Americans? "They are excited, ardent, positive, because they...is all a mere stunning and deafening of the self." The approach of death alone makes them realize the folly of it all — "why not then admit it sooner?"...
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The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volume 82

Henri Frédéric Amiel - Authors, Swiss - 1935 - 738 pages
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From Darkness to Light: A Confession of Faith in the Form of an Anthology

Victor Gollancz - Anthologies - 1956 - 696 pages
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The Sociology of Freedom

Krishna Chaitanya - Communities - 1978 - 478 pages
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Amiel's Journal

Henri-Frederic Amiel - Philosophy - 2005 - 276 pages
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