Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

James Rozoff
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  1. Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You... - Madeline Miller

  2. I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. - Nikolai Gogol

  3. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them. - Veronica Roth

  4. To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions. - Amit Kalantri

  5. Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. - Peter Kreeft

More Quotes By James Rozoff
  1. Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

  2. True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

  3. A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

  4. As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

  5. You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

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