Baruch Spinoza
"The search after the great man is the dream of youth
and the most serious occupation of manhood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"We need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances' (social, cultural, or reductively psychological-personal), but that by linking ourselves through what Keats calls an 'immortal free-masonry' with the great we can become freer - freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value."
Walter Jackson Bate
