Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel, Volumes 1-2Macmillan, 1913 |
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Page xxxv
... universal , more fruitful in conse- quences of every sort and bearing , more capable of transforming and remaking everything presented to it , has arisen dur- ing the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of ...
... universal , more fruitful in conse- quences of every sort and bearing , more capable of transforming and remaking everything presented to it , has arisen dur- ing the last three hundred years . Like the spirit of the Renaissance and of ...
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... universal knowledge , of absolute being , has once dawned on the dazzled beholder ? The charm and the savour of everything relative and phenomenal is gone . A man may go on talking , teaching , writing - but the spring of personal ...
... universal knowledge , of absolute being , has once dawned on the dazzled beholder ? The charm and the savour of everything relative and phenomenal is gone . A man may go on talking , teaching , writing - but the spring of personal ...
Page lix
... universal knowledge . ' Led by his passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The ...
... universal knowledge . ' Led by his passion for the whole , ' says M. Scherer , Amiel offered his hearers , not so much a series of positive teachings , as an index of subjects , a framework - what the Germans call a Schematismus . The ...
Page lxiii
... universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire and to quench in me both the wish to produce and the power to execute . ' It is the result of what he himself calls ' l'éblouissement de l'infini . ' He no sooner makes ...
... universal life , is sometimes enough to make me forget every desire and to quench in me both the wish to produce and the power to execute . ' It is the result of what he himself calls ' l'éblouissement de l'infini . ' He no sooner makes ...
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... even death . Only be at peace with self , live in the presence of God , in communion with Him , and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do noth- I this absolute self - distrust , are , no doubt.
... even death . Only be at peace with self , live in the presence of God , in communion with Him , and leave the guidance of existence to those universal powers against whom thou canst do noth- I this absolute self - distrust , are , no doubt.
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