human greatness Quotes

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

Only those who feel little in the eyes of God, can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men.

But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of o­ne spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.

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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.