Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals"
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Heroic
113 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Chris Lowell
Actor
"I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic."
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"People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too."
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"What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
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"Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost."
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"Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world."
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"Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?"
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"I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic."
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"We have every right to dream heroic dreams."
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"Truth is a pathless land."
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"Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind."
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"The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic."
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"The only training for the heroic is the mundane."
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"A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life."
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"A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood."
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"The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact"
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"Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure."
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"No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages."
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"He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem."
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"Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic."
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"A heroic nature is very Greek."
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"Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him."
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