Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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Page xcvi
... moral steadfast- ness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich in faith , grasp in new ...
... moral steadfast- ness which is the inmost note of it - to these meditative lives , which , through all the ebb and flow of thought , and in the dim ways of doubt and suffering , rich in knowl- edge , and yet rich in faith , grasp in new ...
Page 9
... moral action . At bottom this is nothing more than the propo- sition of Hegel : [ ' What is rational is real ; and what is real is rational ' ] ; but it had never seemed to me more evident , more palpable . Everything which is , is ...
... moral action . At bottom this is nothing more than the propo- sition of Hegel : [ ' What is rational is real ; and what is real is rational ' ] ; but it had never seemed to me more evident , more palpable . Everything which is , is ...
Page 18
... moral depth , appeals to me almost like a duty . Sometimes I cannot escape from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within , a common worship , towards the world out- side , kindness ...
... moral depth , appeals to me almost like a duty . Sometimes I cannot escape from the ideal of it . A companion of my life , of my work , of my thoughts , of my hopes ; within , a common worship , towards the world out- side , kindness ...
Page 19
... moral relations which develop round the first all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes . But I put them aside , because every hope is , as it were , an egg whence a serpent may issue instead of a dove , because every joy missed is a stab ...
... moral relations which develop round the first all these ideas intoxicate me sometimes . But I put them aside , because every hope is , as it were , an egg whence a serpent may issue instead of a dove , because every joy missed is a stab ...
Page 24
... Moral love places the centre man . It of the individual in the centre of being . has at least salvation in principle , the germ of eternal life . To love is virtually to know ; to know is not virtually to love ; there you have the ...
... Moral love places the centre man . It of the individual in the centre of being . has at least salvation in principle , the germ of eternal life . To love is virtually to know ; to know is not virtually to love ; there you have the ...
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