Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page 9
... individual thought . The human intelligence is but the conscious- ness of being . It is what I have formu- lated before : Everything is a symbol of a symbol , and a symbol of what ? of mind . • I have just been looking through the ...
... individual thought . The human intelligence is but the conscious- ness of being . It is what I have formu- lated before : Everything is a symbol of a symbol , and a symbol of what ? of mind . • I have just been looking through the ...
Page 33
... individual prison . Hence aptitude for theory and irresolution in practice ; hence critical talent and a dif- ficulty in spontaneous production . Hence , also , a continuous uncertainty of convic- tion and opinion , so long as my ...
... individual prison . Hence aptitude for theory and irresolution in practice ; hence critical talent and a dif- ficulty in spontaneous production . Hence , also , a continuous uncertainty of convic- tion and opinion , so long as my ...
Page 38
... individual soul , not being unique and not springing from itself , can it be conceived without God ? Psychologically , the force of spontaneity in the ego is allowed a do- minion too exclusive of any other . As a fact , it is not ...
... individual soul , not being unique and not springing from itself , can it be conceived without God ? Psychologically , the force of spontaneity in the ego is allowed a do- minion too exclusive of any other . As a fact , it is not ...
Page 55
... individual . Thus which is curious - women are at once the sex which is most constant and most variable . Most constant from the moral point of view , most variable from the social . A confraternity in the first case , a hierarchy in ...
... individual . Thus which is curious - women are at once the sex which is most constant and most variable . Most constant from the moral point of view , most variable from the social . A confraternity in the first case , a hierarchy in ...
Page 68
... individual part , while all the time I am living in the confidence of the poet who is playing with all these agents which seem so important , and knows all that they are ignorant of . It is a strange position , and one which becomes ...
... individual part , while all the time I am living in the confidence of the poet who is playing with all these agents which seem so important , and knows all that they are ignorant of . It is a strange position , and one which becomes ...
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