“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.” MenEarthGreatnessEternityGreat ThingsGreatness Of Man Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856 Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity.” NeedsHandsPathFeetGreatnessFameEternityLips Author:Philip Larkin
“The psalms, like no other literature, lift us to a position where we can commune with God, capturing a sense of the greatness of his kingdom and a sense of what living with him for eternity will be like.” LiteraturePositionGreatnessEternityKingdomsLiftsPsalmsCommunes Author:Gordon Fee
“The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsMadeTogetherBeautifulLife IsCommonCreationGreatnessHatredEternitySightGreedCastsSnowSpiteVeilsWrathShort LifeEnmity Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Moments like this act as magical interludes, placing our hearts at the edge of our souls: fleetingly, yet intensely, a fragment of eternity has come to enrich time...When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.” HeartSoulMomentsAbilityGreatnessEternityEdgesTeaRitualFragmentsSmall ThingsAbility To See Author:Muriel Barbery
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it” WantHumansStillsDifferentFacesHuman BeingsGreatnessBearsEternityAmorFormulasIdealismAmor Fati Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.” MenGivingWholeCoursesNamesHistoryEventsGreatnessConnectionsEternityHistoricalLabelsRelatedGreat MenSmallestHistoricInvoluntaryPredestined Author:Leo Tolstoy