Samuel Johnson Quote

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.


A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), Inch Kenneth


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...

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...

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...

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...