 | Alicia Chudo - 2000 - 255 oldal
...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 oldal
...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; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
 | Jeff McMahan - 2002 - 564 oldal
...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: whatever makes the past. the distant. or the future predominate over the present. advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."42... | |
 | H. W. Tilman - 2004 - 938 oldal
...all only a series of attempts to climb a high mountain: To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would...power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in dignity of thinking beings. Far... | |
 | Mike Walker - 2005 - 308 oldal
...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; whatever makes the past, the distant or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 276 oldal
...giving it shape and emotional resonance. Toward the end of the Journey, Johnson memorably observes, "Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of human beings" (148).... | |
 | 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, whatever makes the past the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings."... | |
 | Brian J. Coman - 2007 - 188 oldal
...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; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.... | |
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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... 
