“Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.” MenHeartMeanCareNamesGreaterGreatnessStrangeGreat MenConsentEverlastingNobody Cares Author:John Ruskin
“I don't know what motivated the artist, which means that the paintings have an intrinsic quality. I think Goethe called it the 'essential dimension,' the thing that makes great works of art great.” ThinkingKnowsMeanArtArtistQualityGreatnessPaintingEssentialsDimensionsWorks Of ArtMotivatedGreat Work Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007 Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007
“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.” ThinkingGivingHumansMeanEvilHuman NatureGreatnessWillingReadyGoodnessEarsWelcomeJealousyReportsCalumnyCalumny Is Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays
“It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.” NeedsShouldMeanNationsLevelsGreatnessRootsMoodHeroicGreat NationsTime Of Need Book:Fear God and Take Your Own Part Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.” MenMeanCountryAmericaSpiritualOpportunityGreatnessDevelopmentIntellectualSpecies Author:Edwin Land
“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.” IfsMenWayMeanHelpingCultureOpportunityIndividualSituationGreaterStudentsGreatnessHe ManIntegrityLibraryUniversitySuperiorsBoardsGreat MenPointingPersonal PowerCrutchesSterlingWay To Success Author:Orison Swett Marden
“I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.” KnowsMenWellsLooksMeanReligiousCreationGreatnessAweTouchedDefiniteReally MeanPiousGod Is There Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!” MenMeanGreatnessBirthBlessingSlaveEsteemGoldenCurseFreemanGolden Mean Author:Philip Massinger