Oxford English Dictionary Named after Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, the month of August is a fitting time to reflect on greatness.
Greatness is a matter of opinion that encompasses the spectrum of human experience.
Here's a quote from Albert Einstein , my childhood hero, which addresses this paradox. Perhaps the dilemma of greatness stems from our very mortality, from our wish to transcend pain and death. By many lights, the greatest of the great is a Divine source, immortal and eternal, from which all things flow. Numberless, one can scarcely begin to catalog the varieties of worship, let alone reconcile their conflicting tenets. But just as the journey begins with a single step, so too does understanding procede with a single example, followed by the next.