 | Alicia Chudo, Gary Saul Morson - 2000 - 255 pages
...Investigations (Wittgenstein): Let's not quibble about words. Philosophy in the Bedroom (Sade): Whatever removes us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the future, or the distant predominant over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 pages
...the wisdom of the past. Here is Johnson movingly pondering his visit to the monastic island of lona: Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | Jeff McMahan - 2002 - 564 pages
...temporally and spatially local that raises us above the level of animals. As Samuel Jolmson once noted. "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses:...future predominate over the present. advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."42 Consider. by contrast. Aldous Huxley's description of a woman whose... | |
 | H. W. Tilman - 2004 - 938 pages
...to quote it in connexion with what is after all only a series of attempts to climb a high mountain: To abstract the mind from all local emotion would...future predominate over the present, advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 pages
...the Tourist: Guy Mannering and the Turner Illustrations Whatever withdraws us from the power of the senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | Mike Walker - 2005 - 308 pages
...would like to dedicate the book to him. Mike Walker October, 2004 Dating Methods and the Quaternary Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Samuel Johnson 1.1 Introduction The Quaternary is the most recent period... | |
 | Brian J. Coman - 2007 - 188 pages
...amid the ruins of lona, gave us those famous lines in his Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland: Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1902
...the plains of Marathon," adding, "or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." For, "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses,...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Thus we in some measure see the due proportion of things, and the greatness... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 pages
...giving it shape and emotional resonance. Toward the end of the Journey, Johnson memorably observes, "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses;...future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings" (148). This may seem an eccentric philosophical dictum for a travel writer... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 pages
...distinct separation between them. When he talked of madness, he was to be understood as speaking of would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would...future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct... | |
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To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over... 
