Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true,… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
One of the most sublime and hazardous moments in human experience comes when two people lock eyes and realize that they are… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And… — Henry Abbey Copy Share Image
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read.… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving,… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
“Chantel plays the piece with such passion that I can only sum it up as this: If the notion of sublime were… — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Of course, there's nothing wrong with deer burgers and venison chili, but with a little gusto, those stalwarts can go from satisfying… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding)… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime,… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime… — Erik Satie Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of… — Isaac Watts 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
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
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
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
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