Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Volume 2Macmillan, 1905 - 721 pages |
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Page 42
... principles , acquirements , and habits are effaced in me like the ripples on a wave , like the convo- lutions of a cloud . My personality has the least possible admixture of individuality . I am to the great majority of men what the ...
... principles , acquirements , and habits are effaced in me like the ripples on a wave , like the convo- lutions of a cloud . My personality has the least possible admixture of individuality . I am to the great majority of men what the ...
Page 44
... principle that life is an evil and an- nihilation a good lies at the root of the system , and this axiom I have never dared to enunciate in any general way , although I have admitted it here and there in individ- ual cases . - What I ...
... principle that life is an evil and an- nihilation a good lies at the root of the system , and this axiom I have never dared to enunciate in any general way , although I have admitted it here and there in individ- ual cases . - What I ...
Page 61
... America is on the road to revolutionise this ideal by the introduction of the democratic principle of the equality of individuals in a general equality of func- tions . Only , when there is nothing left but AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 61.
... America is on the road to revolutionise this ideal by the introduction of the democratic principle of the equality of individuals in a general equality of func- tions . Only , when there is nothing left but AMIEL'S JOURNAL . 61.
Page 62
... principle and its followers . And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality . It would be a strange end ... principles may be made in time , before the social war , with all its terror and ruin , overtakes us . But it is ...
... principle and its followers . And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality . It would be a strange end ... principles may be made in time , before the social war , with all its terror and ruin , overtakes us . But it is ...
Page 66
... principle in it is the desire of knowledge . Its permanent substance is the uncompre- hended or the divine ; its changing form is the result of its intellectual labour . The unconscious adhesions , the confused intui- tions , the ...
... principle in it is the desire of knowledge . Its permanent substance is the uncompre- hended or the divine ; its changing form is the result of its intellectual labour . The unconscious adhesions , the confused intui- tions , the ...
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