Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can… — David Deida Copy Share Image
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by… — Mortimer Collins Copy Share Image
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make… — John Divola Copy Share Image
What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason. — Andre Chenier Copy Share Image
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! — William McFee Copy Share Image
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something, always, in a word, seeking. But the wise wake up. They… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“There's a fine line between limiting yourself and knowing your limit. Once you cross the line in, you might eliminate, or rather,… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas,… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam… — Joel Achenbach Copy Share Image
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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