Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 69
... conscience ? To be free , is to guide one- self , to have attained one's majority , to be emancipated , master of one's actions , and judge of good and evil ; but Ultramontane Catholicism never emancipates its disciples , who are bound ...
... conscience ? To be free , is to guide one- self , to have attained one's majority , to be emancipated , master of one's actions , and judge of good and evil ; but Ultramontane Catholicism never emancipates its disciples , who are bound ...
Page 86
... conscience and not upon science . Civilisation is first and foremost a moral thing . Without honesty , without respect for law , without the worship of duty , with- out the love of one's neighbour , —in a word , without virtue , the ...
... conscience and not upon science . Civilisation is first and foremost a moral thing . Without honesty , without respect for law , without the worship of duty , with- out the love of one's neighbour , —in a word , without virtue , the ...
Page 87
... conscience , of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and vulgar crowd , is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty . When any society produces an increasing number of literary exquisites , of satirists , sceptics , and ...
... conscience , of the intellectual aristocracy from the honest and vulgar crowd , is the greatest danger that can threaten liberty . When any society produces an increasing number of literary exquisites , of satirists , sceptics , and ...
Page 107
... and his school . It is ex- plicable enough . The deaf have no sense of dissonance . The man who knows noth- ing of the voice of conscience , the voice of - regret or remorse , cannot even guess at the AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 107.
... and his school . It is ex- plicable enough . The deaf have no sense of dissonance . The man who knows noth- ing of the voice of conscience , the voice of - regret or remorse , cannot even guess at the AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 107.
Page 117
... conscience cries out . The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty , if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair . Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance , or rather , have made it desired . If ...
... conscience cries out . The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty , if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair . Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance , or rather , have made it desired . If ...
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