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“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“Spinoza , for example, thought that insight into the essence of reality, into the harmonious structure of the eternal universe, necessarily awakens love for this universe. For him, ethical conduct is entirely determined by such insight into nature, just as our devotion to a person may be determined by insight into his greatness or genius. Fears and petty passions, alien to the great love of the universe, which is logos itself, will vanish, according to Spinoza, once our understanding of reality is deep enough.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.”

People Knows Life Wells Reality Seems Individual Levels Known Greatness Well Known Insignificant Individual Life

Book:The Society of the Spectacle

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.”

“The thinking of the one, therefore, will be determined by eternal truth, the actions of the other more by the practical reality of the moment. The greatness of the one lies in the absolute abstract soundness of his idea.”

Thinking Ideas Moments Reality Action Lying Greatness Eternal Absolutes Determined Practicals Abstract Soundness

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The romance of circumvention is one of the most destructive forces at work in our society. The American Idol freeway to greatness, Instagramming one's way into popular consciousness with selfies of our ass folds beneath short shorts, human growth hormone and performance-enhancing drugs for athletes, Adderall for the idle mind, reality television that sacrifices our dignity for fifteen lousy minutes.”

“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”

Reality Fighting Greatness Kicks Martial Arts Kick Ass Punching Martial Arts Inspirational

Author:Bruce Lee

“Real living is living for others.”

Life Real Reality Motivation Consciousness Greatness Martial Arts Mastery Martial Arts Inspirational

Author:Bruce Lee

“The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.”

“... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.”

“I don't believe in greatness that is bestowed as a rare gift to a few lucky ones. Rather, I think all people have greatness inside them. It is just a matter of persistence--sticking to what you have envisioned until it is reality. I have a deep conviction that everyone, including you, has been given exactly the right set of gifts to fulfill some magnificent purpose in life. Greatness must simply be chosen. And if you choose it, it will happen.”

Source: Brain Wave Vibration: Getting Back Into the Rhythm of a Happy, Healthy Life

“The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.”

Way Kind Shows Reality Greatness Particular Praise Magnanimity

Book:A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets

Source: A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets

“On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what it signifies, or about the greatness of the reality of which it is a sacrament. Your eyes are looking at bread and cup. This is the evidence before your physical sight. But your faith must be instructed concerning it- this bread being Christ 's Body and the cup containing His Blood. Though perhaps these words may be enough to initiate faith, faith must be further instructed in accordance with the Prophet's words: 'Believe that you may understand'”

Believe May Enough Body Reality Eye Lasts Night Christ Saws Heard Blood Greatness Evidence Sight Bread Cups Prophet Sacraments Last Night Altars Containing Initiate

Author:Saint Augustine

“Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.”

Wisdom Reality Spiritual Results Growing Greatness Conviction Supreme Devotion

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.”

Firsts Reality Greatness Keys Integrity

Author:Socrates

“Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life.”

Heart Home Reality Sound Silence Mystery Land Greatness Forests Fence Moonlight Concealed Stood Up

Book:Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism

Source: Heart of darkness: an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, ess ays in criticism

“Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.”

Humans Soul Reality Spirit Greatness Human Spirit

Author:William Shirley

“I have found that the more I reflect philosophically on the attributes of God the more overwhelmed I become at his greatness and the more excited I become about Bible doctrine. Whereas easy appeals to mystery prematurely shut off reflection about God, rigorous and earnest effort to understand him is richly rewarded with deeper appreciation of who he is, more confidence in his reality and care, and a more intelligent and profound worship of his person.”