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

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 Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

Oh, to prolong this blissful moment, to sleep, to eternalize oneself in it!

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

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 Horrocks, Mrs. George

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 Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)