Philosophy

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Philosophy

"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 far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia."

Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Philosophy

"The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all."