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“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.”

Source: The Edge of the Sword

“In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us. In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons. Students have not the slightest notion of what an achievement it is to free oneself from public guidance and find resources for guidance within oneself.”

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.”

Men Spirit Names Language Progress Hero Achievement Heroic Geography Mold Nothing New Scientific Progress Mt Everest

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.”

War President Achievement Affair Heroic Foreign Affairs

Author:Allan Lichtman

“The 'black armband' view of our history reflects a belief that most Australian history since 1788 has been little more than a disgraceful story of imperialism, exploitation, racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. I take a very different view. I believe that the balance sheet of our history is one of heroic achievement and that we have achieved much more as a nation of which we can be proud of than which we should be ashamed.”

“Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.”

World Simple Holy Achievement Messages Ordinary Insane Obedience Sanity Heroic Robust Asylums Insane Asylum

Author:Peter Kreeft

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.”

Men Life Reason Philosophy Purpose Moral Activity Achievement Concepts Essence Absolutes Productive Heroic Objectivism

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”

Reality Forever Democracy Possibility Achievement Ideals Sorry Heroic Contrast Tease I Am Sorry

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.”

Character Process Freedom Creativity Creative Achievement Radical Heroic Strength Of Character

Book:The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation

Source: The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation

“Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.”

Source: The Dynamics of Architectural Form