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Page x
... infinite , in all this I recognise myself . Celui qui a déchiffré le secret de la vie finie , qui en a lu le mot , est sorti du monde des vivants , il est mort de fait . I can feel forcibly the truth of this , as it applies to myself ...
... infinite , in all this I recognise myself . Celui qui a déchiffré le secret de la vie finie , qui en a lu le mot , est sorti du monde des vivants , il est mort de fait . I can feel forcibly the truth of this , as it applies to myself ...
Page xxiv
... Infinite , the Absolute , alone had value or reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except in the divine . Nothing finite is true , is ...
... Infinite , the Absolute , alone had value or reality . In his own words : ' There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute ; for feeling except in the infinite ; for the soul except in the divine . Nothing finite is true , is ...
Page xxv
... infinite , or the various forms and consequences of that deadening of personality which the abstract processes of thought tend to produce . But it is easy to understand that a man in whom experiences of this kind become habitual is ...
... infinite , or the various forms and consequences of that deadening of personality which the abstract processes of thought tend to produce . But it is easy to understand that a man in whom experiences of this kind become habitual is ...
Page xxxv
... infinite aspiration , moral passion , that strain- ing hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul - they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself ...
... infinite aspiration , moral passion , that strain- ing hope of something beyond , which is the life of the religious soul - they are all here , and the Dernier Mot with which the sad little volume ends is poor Amiel's epitaph on himself ...
Page xxxix
... infinite and the unknowable , and its relation towards the visible universe which conditions it — which is the real subject of the Journal Intime . There are few elements of our present life which , in a greater or less degree , are not ...
... infinite and the unknowable , and its relation towards the visible universe which conditions it — which is the real subject of the Journal Intime . There are few elements of our present life which , in a greater or less degree , are not ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
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