Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 119
... conscience as well as our hearts . But the need of faith never leaves us . It is the postulate of a higher truth which is to bring all things into harmony . It is the stimulus of research ; it holds out to us the reward , it points us ...
... conscience as well as our hearts . But the need of faith never leaves us . It is the postulate of a higher truth which is to bring all things into harmony . It is the stimulus of research ; it holds out to us the reward , it points us ...
Page 124
... conscience , and my liberty . All scholasticism is an attempt to take by storm ; the authority pretends to explain itself , but only pretends , and its deference is merely illusory . The dice are loaded and the premisses are prejudged ...
... conscience , and my liberty . All scholasticism is an attempt to take by storm ; the authority pretends to explain itself , but only pretends , and its deference is merely illusory . The dice are loaded and the premisses are prejudged ...
Page 127
... conscience , and prac- tised in self - government . In every English child one feels something of the national motto God and my right , ' and in every English household one has a sense that the home is a citadel , or better still , a ...
... conscience , and prac- tised in self - government . In every English child one feels something of the national motto God and my right , ' and in every English household one has a sense that the home is a citadel , or better still , a ...
Page 128
... conscience , penetrated as it is with Christian morality , has always perse- cuted my Oriental quietism and Buddhist tendencies . I have not dared to approve myself , I have not known how to correct myself . In this , as in all else , I ...
... conscience , penetrated as it is with Christian morality , has always perse- cuted my Oriental quietism and Buddhist tendencies . I have not dared to approve myself , I have not known how to correct myself . In this , as in all else , I ...
Page 134
... conscience ; conscience dissipates the narcotic vapours , the opium- like hallucinations , the placid stupor of contemplative indifference . It drives us into contact with the terrible wheels within wheels of human suffering and human ...
... conscience ; conscience dissipates the narcotic vapours , the opium- like hallucinations , the placid stupor of contemplative indifference . It drives us into contact with the terrible wheels within wheels of human suffering and human ...
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