eternalize
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According to economist Harold Innis, “stone, clay tablets and parchment are ‘heavy’ media which enable a civilization to anchor itself in the past and eternalize itself.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015
The thirst of eternity is what is called love among men, and whosoever loves another wishes to eternalize himself in him.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
Our desire is to eternalize ourselves, to persist, and we call good everything that conspires to this end and bad everything that tends to lessen or destroy our consciousness.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
He says, "Napoleon first solved the enigma of equality and liberty—his chief aim was the prevention of despotism—his chief desire, to eternalize the dominion of virtue."
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks
Oh, to prolong this blissful moment, to sleep, to eternalize oneself in it!
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014
Or perhaps thus: Act as if you were to die to-morrow, but to die in order to survive and be eternalized.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
The environment becomes thus described as a single, eternal, conscious unity, in which all the actual but transitory values of the actual but transitory life are conserved and eternalized.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
Her sorrow was real, of course, but the fire lighted by the senses is small and not enduring, and when the occasion arises regret is not eternalized, besides there were others waiting with impatience.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton
In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
It was easy to imagine Hals set up with his easel here, eternalizing the residents’ animated faces.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
Imagine bottling the scent of someone you love, eternalizing them forever, allowing you to dive into a fond memory of that person with just one whiff.
From National Geographic ● May 10, 2018
This eternal and eternalizing person who gives meaning—and I will add, a human meaning, for there is none other—to the Universe, is it a substantial something, existing independently of our consciousness, independently of our desire?
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
To be, to be for ever, to be without ending! thirst of being, thirst of being more! hunger of God! thirst of love eternalizing and eternal! to be for ever! to be God!
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.
From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys
