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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

The peripatetic philosophy, obeying rationalist propensities, has tried to eternalize the common-sense categories by treating them very technically and articulately.

From Pragmatism by William James

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

From Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland

Some thoughts and feelings, then, eternalize themselves in human speech; most thoughts and feelings do not.

From A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry

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

From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2014

In Him, who is eternal, is not all existence 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

Yes, everything deserves to be eternalized, absolutely everything, even evil itself, for that which we call evil would lose its evilness in being eternalized, because it would lose its temporal nature.

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

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

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

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

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

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

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