Amiel's Journal, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1923 |
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Page x
... clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it has been ...
... clear , is hard to find . Another difficulty has been his constant use of a technical philosophical language , which , according to his French critics , is not French even philosophical French - but German . Very often it has been ...
Page lxii
... clear both to himself and others . To love , to dream , to feel , to learn , to understand all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred ...
... clear both to himself and others . To love , to dream , to feel , to learn , to understand all these are possible to me if only I may be dis- pensed from willing - I have a sort of primitive horror of ambition , of struggle , of hatred ...
Page lxvii
... clear that very early he began to regard it as possible that portions of the Journal should be published after his death , and , as we have seen , he left certain literary instructions , ' dated seven years before his last illness , in ...
... clear that very early he began to regard it as possible that portions of the Journal should be published after his death , and , as we have seen , he left certain literary instructions , ' dated seven years before his last illness , in ...
Page lxxxviii
... clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His Calvinistic train- ing lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with which he has much in common ...
... clear and unwavering ; but the heart clings to old traditions , and steadies itself on the rock of duty . His Calvinistic train- ing lingers long in him ; and what detaches him from the Hegelian school , with which he has much in common ...
Page xc
... clear enough . Man is saved by love and duty , and by the hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , - these are ...
... clear enough . Man is saved by love and duty , and by the hope which springs from duty , or rather from the moral facts of consciousness , as a flower springs from the soil . Conscience and the moral progress of the race , - these are ...
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