eternalize

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

That which man seeks in religion, in religious faith, is to save his own individuality, to eternalize it, which he achieves neither by science, nor by art, nor by ethics.

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

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)

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

Every family had its own, dead or alive, oftener dead, and wanted to eternalize his features.

From Pierre and Luce by Rolland, Romain

In the same piece, she said that “racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America’s institutions.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014

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 Overton, William Hassell

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

In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence eternalized?

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

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 Bode, Boyd H.

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

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

What love desires is the eternalizing of the idea of flesh and blood.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper

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