 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.  The Pocket Magazine - Seite 2281829Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 Seiten
...moment: "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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 Seiten
...that "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."31 It is, I think, a mark of wisdom to recognize the force of this observation, and we may... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1994 - 454 Seiten
...1961)209,118. 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.43 Johnson pleads for a "predominating]" cognitio intellectiva which "advances us in the dignity... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 Seiten
...possible. 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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and... | |
 | Adolphe Pictet - 2000 - 592 Seiten
...much as to allow that it is altogether devoid of merit. " Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings ;" and what can be more conducive to this end than the study of man —the study of antiquity—the... | |
 | Harriet Guest - 2000 - 362 Seiten
...possible. 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | Gordon Mursell - 2001 - 604 Seiten
...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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and... | |
 | Jeff McMahan - 2002 - 564 Seiten
...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 Consider. by contrast. Aldous Huxley's description of a woman whose "life was spent in enjoying... | |
 | George Dekker - 2005 - 342 Seiten
...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 us indifferent and... | |
 | Brian J. Coman - 2007 - 188 Seiten
...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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and... | |
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