I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant… — Ian Hornak Copy Share Image
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sublime is a hodgepodge of all types of bands I have been into since I was a kid. Not like I mix… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to… — John H Aughey Copy Share Image
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I am one who believes that the world goes from the slime to the sublime. And you can take Darwin and all… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors… You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in… — John Divola Copy Share Image
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that! — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
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