Excerpt from La Philosophie de Tolsto??? Dans sa vieillesse, lorsqu'il br???lera tout ce qu'il adorait jadis, Tolsto??? raillera ces sentiments et cette sensibilit??? affective l'esprit ???prouve souvent le besoin de se venger des servitudes pass???es du coeur. Il ne reste pas moins vrai que Tolsto??? fut toujours un sensitif. Mais la sensibilit??? s'accompagnait chez lui d'une grande puissance d'abstraction. C'est la encore une des cons???quences de sa timidit???. Le timide est hant??? de l'id???e de la perfection; il ...
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Excerpt from La Philosophie de Tolsto??? Dans sa vieillesse, lorsqu'il br???lera tout ce qu'il adorait jadis, Tolsto??? raillera ces sentiments et cette sensibilit??? affective l'esprit ???prouve souvent le besoin de se venger des servitudes pass???es du coeur. Il ne reste pas moins vrai que Tolsto??? fut toujours un sensitif. Mais la sensibilit??? s'accompagnait chez lui d'une grande puissance d'abstraction. C'est la encore une des cons???quences de sa timidit???. Le timide est hant??? de l'id???e de la perfection; il veut ???tre e???t??????rem???nt naturel et rigoureusement juste dans l'expression de ses sentiments et de ses pen s???es'. Si la timidit??? ne proc???de pas du temp???ra ment individuel et sup???rieur, elle le cr???e. Un mem bre anonyme de la foule n'est jamais timide. Ceux qui ont toujours ???t??? a l'aise sont a coup s???r des heu reux, mais ce sont, pour la plupart, des m???diocres? La timidit??? cr???e la hardiesse de pens???e. Si je suis passablement hardi en pens???e, dit Renan, je suis en pratique timide ??? l'exc???s 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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