“Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.” ArtAgeCertainIndividualReligiousGeniusArt IsTraditionSupremeStatementsTraditionalAbandonedHeroicReligious Truth Book:Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare.” IndividualDevelopmentHeroElementsHeroic Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a fateful struggle thereby came to an end for which perhaps individual statesmen, but certainly not the peoples themselves could be held responsible. The German nation put up such an heroic fight because it was sincere in its conviction that it had been wrongfully attacked and was therefore justified in fighting. the Peace Treaty of Versailles did not seem to be for the purpose of restoring peace to mankind, but rather to perpetuate hatred.” PeopleMadeEndsSeemsPurposeFightingIndividualNationsPresidentStruggleMankindArmsPromiseHatredResponsibleConvictionSincereHeroicJustifiedStatesmenNovemberTreatiesFourteenWilsonRestoringVersaillesPeace TreatiesPresident Wilson Author:Adolf Hitler
“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.” IndividualNationsQualityAcceptancePersonalityNormalResistanceFollowersHeroicModestyHeroismCultAnonymityLimelightCult Of Personality Author:Shana Alexander