“Great countries are those that produce great people.”– Benjamin Disraeli Related Quotes “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”– Thomas Carlyle “The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”– Soren Kierkegaard “Men are only as great as they are kind.”– Elbert Hubbard