godlikeness, n.Definitions

Godlikeness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not immortality, youth or immunity from disease, but the power to die and to bear disease as a god would.

Godlikeness (n.) held ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠consciously and loftily breeds an unconscious godlikeness pointing downward, to an archaic god sensual and brutal — and by enantiodromia this hidden god will one day press the God of our ideals to the wall.

Godlikeness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the state of the man who has severed every tie and has only himself for object — God by definition reposes in himself everywhere — yet he does not feel godlike in the least: he is supremely wretched.

Godlikeness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the introvert's temptation to shape the world after his limited ideas — but even stones have a divine right to exist, and the person so shaped will not thank him.

Godlikeness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the superiority felt once good and evil seem reconciled in oneself — or, in another temperament, the godlikeness of a Prometheus chained to the rock.