Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric AmielMacmillan, 1893 - 721 pages |
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... possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a life- -a higher and INTRODUCTION . xci.
... possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , are so many ways of ap- proaching the Divine , so many modes of tasting and adoring God . Religion is not a method : it is a life- -a higher and INTRODUCTION . xci.
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... possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , all our external resources , are so many ways of approaching the Divinity , so many modes of tasting and of adoring God . We must learn to detach ourselves from all that ...
... possess God . All our senses , all our powers of mind and soul , all our external resources , are so many ways of approaching the Divinity , so many modes of tasting and of adoring God . We must learn to detach ourselves from all that ...
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... possess it , still less does he create it . He is a gardener and not a geol- ogist ; he cultivates the earth only so much as is necessary to make it produce for him flowers and fruits ; he does not dig deep enough into it to understand ...
... possess it , still less does he create it . He is a gardener and not a geol- ogist ; he cultivates the earth only so much as is necessary to make it produce for him flowers and fruits ; he does not dig deep enough into it to understand ...
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... possessing a power of acute and exhaustive analysis . 6th September . - Tocqueville's book has on the whole a calming effect upon the mind , but it leaves a certain sense of dis- gust behind . It makes one realise the necessity of what ...
... possessing a power of acute and exhaustive analysis . 6th September . - Tocqueville's book has on the whole a calming effect upon the mind , but it leaves a certain sense of dis- gust behind . It makes one realise the necessity of what ...
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... mere 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.
... mere 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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