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“Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.”

Men World Light Justice Behinds Saws Modern Hero Worship Shadow Criticism Praise Paint Dues Monsters Great Men Unreality Hero Worship

Author:James Freeman Clarke

“If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.”

Ifs Giving Feels Self Young Forget Youth Hero Periods Worship Admire Ruts Newness Hero Worship Newness Of Life

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.”

Source: The Image or What Happened to the American Dream

“Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.”

Done Film Science Poor Accounts Sacred Mere Swim Superficial Hero Worship

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.”

Made Home Father Boys Hero Worship Absence Shy Awkward My Hero Hero Worship

Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish. ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.”

People Humans Use Spirit Race Hero Worship Mere Rational Human Race Civilized Barbarism Fetish Philosophic Hero Worship

Book:Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

Source: Roving Adventures, Or Lavengro: The Scholar - the Gipsy - the Priest

“The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.”

Language Struggle Revolution Heroic Hero Worship

Author:Eugene V. Debs

“Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.”

Men Sometimes Secret Regret Hero Shame Hero Worship

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.”

Pay Son Masters Hero Worship Obedience Discipleship Hero Worship

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?”

Made Science Black Fire Clouds Glasses Made It Lightning Electricity Thunder Lectures Grind Silk Enquiry Hero Worship

Book:On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions

Source: On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions

“I'm a sucker for hero worship.”

Hero Worship Sucker Hero Worship

Author:Ronald Reagan

“We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes”

Ifs Would Be Hero Satisfied Admire Hero Worship

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.”

Men Stills Feelings Hero Higher Degrees Worship Roots Bottom Great Men Breasts Admiration Admirable Transcendent Hero Worship

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.”

Men Humans Shows Decision Cases Trouble Hero Disease Worship Dignity Average Surrender Flight Great Men Heroism Submission Human Dignity Average Man Hero Worship Prostration

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.”

Hero Worship Remains Patterns Contemporary Suspects Heroism Imitation Hero Worship Undefined

Author:Irwin Edman

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