Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to… — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
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
Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part… — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
Yet the love we experience through other people is just a shadow of love of the inner-self. There is a sublime place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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
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
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
