Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel; Tr., with an Introduction and NotesMacmillan and Company, 1893 - 318 pages |
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Page vii
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the ful- filment of this desire . The reader will ...
... thoughts ; a means whereby the thinker became conscious of his own inner life ; a safe shelter wherein his ... thought or value as experience . The publication of this volume is the ful- filment of this desire . The reader will ...
Page x
... thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the author of Une Cruelle ...
... thought on minds of a type essentially alien from his own . There is a leaven of something positive and austere , of something which , for want of a better name , one calls Puritanism , in Amiel , which escapes the author of Une Cruelle ...
Page xv
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extra- ordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' —of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed he must have ...
... thought , to the development of such a nature . With his extra- ordinary power of ' throwing himself into the object ' —of effacing himself and his own personality in the presence of the thing to be understood and absorbed he must have ...
Page xvi
... thought took possession of him , that he became steeped not only in German methods of speculation , but in German modes of expression , in German forms of sentiment , which clung to him through life , and vitally affected both his ...
... thought took possession of him , that he became steeped not only in German methods of speculation , but in German modes of expression , in German forms of sentiment , which clung to him through life , and vitally affected both his ...
Page xvii
... thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading German , ' he is as ready to confess as any one else is to condemn oneself to remain in every department twenty years behind the progress of science ...
... thought and knowledge . ' To study philology , mythology , history , without reading German , ' he is as ready to confess as any one else is to condemn oneself to remain in every department twenty years behind the progress of science ...
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action adoration æsthetic Amiel beauty become believe charm Châteaubriand Christianity conscience consciousness critical death desire destiny divine doubt dream duty eternal everything evil existence eyes faith feel force French friends Geneva Genevese George Sand German give Goethe grief happiness harmony heart heaven holiness hope human idea ideal illusion imagination impression individual infinite inner instinct intellectual Journal Intime justice kind labour liberal Christianity liberty literary living Madame de Staël Maine de Biran matter Maurice de Guérin melancholy mind monad moral Mozart mystery nature ness never once one's oneself ourselves pantheism passion peace perfect philosopher poetry point of view possess principle Protestantism pure realise reality religion religious Sainte-Beuve Scherer Schopenhauer secret seems sense society soul speak spirit suffering talent things thought tion true truth understand universal Victor Cherbuliez Victor Hugo whole wisdom words
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Page 164 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 240 - Chacun se réveille à ce son, Les Brebis, le Chien, le Garçon. Le pauvre Loup, dans cet esclandre, Empêché par son hoqueton, Ne put ni fuir ni se défendre. Toujours par quelque endroit fourbes se laissent prendre. Quiconque est Loup agisse en Loup : C'est le plus certain de beaucoup.
Page xli - 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 298 - 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 83 - Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front, Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime, Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime, Ayant devant les yeux sans cesse, nuit et jour, Ou quelque saint labeur ou quelque grand amour.
Page 24 - Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image. Thus we have all a cure of souls. Every man is a...
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 11 - Moral force is then the vital point. And this force is only produced by moral force. Like alone acts upon like. Therefore do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love. Be what you wish others to become. Let yourself and not your words preach for you.
Page 293 - Where are the great, whom thou would'st wish to praise thee ? Where are the pure, whom thou would'st choose to love thee? Where are the brave, to stand supreme above thee, Whose high commands would cheer, whose chidings raise thee? Seek, seeker, in thyself ; submit to find In the stones, bread, and life in the blank mind.
Page vi - May it at least win a few more friends and readers here and there for one who lived alone, and died sadly persuaded that his life had been a barren mistake ; whereas, all the while — such is the irony of things — he had been in reality working out the mission assigned him in the spiritual economy, and faithfully obeying the secret mandate which had impressed itself upon his youthful consciousness: — 'Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling...