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“The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.”
Source: Society and solitude
“The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.”
Source: The four books: Confucian Analects, The great learning, The doctrine of the mean, and The works of Mencius. With English notes and translation by James Legge
“The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche
“The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.”
“The great man is always the man of mighty effort.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”
Source: The works of mencius
“The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.”
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)
“The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.”
“The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.”
Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People
“The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.”
“The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.”
Source: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
“The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.”
“The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.”
“The great man of the masses. It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so. The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism. Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself. For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, grovelling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.”
“The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.”
“The great man will come when all of us are feeling great, not when all of us are feeling small. He will ride in at some splendid moment when we all feel that we could do without him.
"We are then able to answer in some manner the question, "Why have we no great men?" We have no great men chiefly because we are always looking for them. We are connoisseurs of greatness, and connoisseurs can never be great; we are fastidious, that is, we are small.
"When Diogenes went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, I am afraid he had very little time to be honest himself And when anybody goes about on his hands and knees looking for a great man to worship, he is making sure that one man at any rate shall not be great.
"Now, the error of Diogenes is evident. The error of Diogenes lay in the fact that he omitted to notice that every man is both an honest man and a dishonest man. Diogenes looked for his honest man inside every crypt and cavern; but he never thought of looking inside the thief.”
Source: Charles Dickens
“The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!”
Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”
“The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.”
Source: Friedrich Nietzsche: 100 Quotes on Strength, Power, and Honor
“The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.”
“The great march of metal destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is the reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake.”
“The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.”
Source: Letters Papers from Prison
“The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.”
Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus
“The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.”
“The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.”
Source: Sexual Politics
“The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.”
Source: Notes On Democracy
“The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.”
“The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. The various substitutes have not proved so successful from the standpoint of results that they could be regarded as a useful replacement for previous religious creeds. But if religious doctrine and faith are really to embrace the broad masses, the unconditional authority of the content of this faith is the foundation of all efficacy.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
“The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
“The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.”
Source: The Master Key to Riches - A Sequel to Think and Grow Rich
“The great master Padmasambhava said, Even if my view is higher than the sky, The attention I pay to my actions and their effects is finer than flour.”
Source: On the Path to Enlightenment: Heart Advice from the Great Tibetan Masters
“The great masters of modern analysis are Lagrange, Laplace, and Gauss, who were contemporaries. It is interesting to note the marked contrast in their styles. Lagrange is perfect both in form and matter, he is careful to explain his procedure, and though his arguments are general they are easy to follow. Laplace on the other hand explains nothing, is indifferent to style, and, if satisfied that his results are correct, is content to leave them either with no proof or with a faulty one. Gauss is as exact and elegant as Lagrange, but even more difficult to follow than Laplace, for he removes every trace of the analysis by which he reached his results, and studies to give a proof which while rigorous shall be as concise and synthetical as possible.”
Source: A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
“The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.”
“The great measure of human maturation is the increasing understanding that we move through life in the blink of an eye; that we are not long with the privilege of having eyes to see, ears to hear, a voice with which to speak and arms to put round a loved one; that we are simply passing through.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character”
“The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.”
“The Great Men create a clearly defined caste system of who are the saviours and who are the saved and the gates to ever escaping assigned status are carefully guarded.”
Source: Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
“The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.”
“The great men of antiquity were poor.”
“The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.”
Source: National Music: And Other Essays
“The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.”
“The great men of the earth are but the marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.”
Source: Critical and literary
“The great men walk on their shadow: They anticipate the future. (Les grands hommes marchent sur leur ombre : Ils anticipent l’ avenir)”
“The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.”
“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”