The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display. — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
“Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting — In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.” — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“The great potential of Christian literature [is] to depict the material world, the physical world of the senses, while also revealing behind… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find these rare moments where you feel completely illuminated. Facts never illuminate you. The phone directory of Manhattan doesn't… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“To live like you've had no yesterdays is a triumph that is both sublime and stupid.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on! — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
“If i had to petname my love, i would have crooned ''SUBLIME'' since the day i got my tounge...MB” — Margish V Copy Share Image
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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