Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889's Quote - My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. – Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889

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