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... Equality engenders uniformity , and it is by sacrificing what is excellent , remarkable , and extra- ordinary that we get rid of what is bad . The whole becomes less barbarous , and at the same time more vulgar . The age of great men is ...
... Equality engenders uniformity , and it is by sacrificing what is excellent , remarkable , and extra- ordinary that we get rid of what is bad . The whole becomes less barbarous , and at the same time more vulgar . The age of great men is ...
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... equality , which in the dawn of existence is mere inertia , torpor , and death , is it to become at last the natural form of life ? Or rather , above the economic and political equality to which the socialist and non- socialist ...
... equality , which in the dawn of existence is mere inertia , torpor , and death , is it to become at last the natural form of life ? Or rather , above the economic and political equality to which the socialist and non- socialist ...
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... equality , the principle of mediocrity , becoming a dogma ; unity aimed at through uniformity ; numbers doing duty for argument ; negative liberty , which has no law in itself , and recognises no limit except in force , everywhere ...
... equality , the principle of mediocrity , becoming a dogma ; unity aimed at through uniformity ; numbers doing duty for argument ; negative liberty , which has no law in itself , and recognises no limit except in force , everywhere ...
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... equality : it depends upon what you mean by it . But this is precisely what nobody cares to find out . All passions dread the light , and the modern zeal for equality is a disguised hatred which tries to pass itself off as love ...
... equality : it depends upon what you mean by it . But this is precisely what nobody cares to find out . All passions dread the light , and the modern zeal for equality is a disguised hatred which tries to pass itself off as love ...
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... equality is military discipline . In military uniform , in the police court , in prison , or on the execu- tion ground , there is no reply possible . But is it not curious that the régime of individual right should lead to nothing but ...
... equality is military discipline . In military uniform , in the police court , in prison , or on the execu- tion ground , there is no reply possible . But is it not curious that the régime of individual right should lead to nothing but ...
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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 xli - And the faith of his youth and his maturity bears the shock of suffering, and supports him through his last hours. He writes a few months before the end : ' The animal expires ; man surrenders his soul to the author of the soul.' . . . ' We dream alone, we suffer alone, we die alone, we inhabit the last resting-place alone. But there is nothing to prevent us from opening our solitude to God. And so what was an austere monologue becomes dialogue, reluctance becomes docility, renunciation passes into...
Page 121 - 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 301 - A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il ya plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.
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 301 - In eurem Namen, Mütter, die ihr thront Im Grenzenlosen, ewig einsam wohnt, Und doch gesellig! Euer Haupt umschweben Des Lebens Bilder, regsam, ohne Leben. Was einmal war in allem Glanz und Schein, Es regt sich dort; denn es will ewig sein.
Page 266 - A mere nothing separates me from idiocy, from madness, -from death. The slightest breach is enough to endanger all this frail, ingenious edifice, which calls itself my being and my life. Not even the dragonfly symbol is enough to express its frailty ; the soap-bubble is the best poetical translation of all this illusory magnificence, this fugitive apparition of the tiny self, which is we, and we it. ... A miserable night enough. Awakened three or four times by my bronchitis. Sadness — restlessness....
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 4 - Whether we will or no, there is an esoteric doctrine — there is a relative revelation; each man enters into God so much as God enters into him ; or, as Angelus, I think, said, " The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which He sees me.