Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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... instinct and inheritance he loves ; he makes no compromise with dogma or with miracle . Beyond the religions of the present he sees always the essential religion , which lasts when all local forms and marvels have passed away ; and as ...
... instinct and inheritance he loves ; he makes no compromise with dogma or with miracle . Beyond the religions of the present he sees always the essential religion , which lasts when all local forms and marvels have passed away ; and as ...
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... instinct . To reform one's maxims is nothing : it is but to change the title of the book . To learn new habits is everything , for it is to reach the substance of life . Life is but a tissue of habits . 17th February 1851. I have been ...
... instinct . To reform one's maxims is nothing : it is but to change the title of the book . To learn new habits is everything , for it is to reach the substance of life . Life is but a tissue of habits . 17th February 1851. I have been ...
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... instinct . we Alas ! we must then re - climb a thousand times the peaks already scaled , and recon quer the points of view already won , must fight the fight ! The human heart , like kings , signs mere truces under a pre- tence of ...
... instinct . we Alas ! we must then re - climb a thousand times the peaks already scaled , and recon quer the points of view already won , must fight the fight ! The human heart , like kings , signs mere truces under a pre- tence of ...
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... instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence for the redemption of the heart that is to say , the part for the whole . These papers make me under ...
... instinct , and will . One finds them mistaking philosophic con- sciousness for realising power , the redemp- tion of the intelligence for the redemption of the heart that is to say , the part for the whole . These papers make me under ...
Page 33
... instinct ; but now that it is conscious and possesses itself , it is able to conclude and affirm in its turn , so that , after having brought disquiet , it now brings peace . It says : There is no repose for AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 33.
... instinct ; but now that it is conscious and possesses itself , it is able to conclude and affirm in its turn , so that , after having brought disquiet , it now brings peace . It says : There is no repose for AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 33.
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