Henri Frédéric Amiel’s diary, 1848

July

1. 16 July 1848

   There is but one thing needful—to possess God. All our senses, all our powers of mind and soul, all our external resources, are so many ways of approaching the…

2. 20 July 1848

   It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological…