Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the… — Jacques-Louis David Copy Share Image
I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is one of the sublime provincialities of New York that its inhabitants lap up trivial gossip about essential nobodies they've never… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Most inexperienced cooks believe, mistakenly, that a fine cake is less challenging to produce than a fine souffle or mousse. I know,… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course,… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The patriarchal, the Jewish, and the Christian dispensations, are evidently but the unfolding of one general plan. In the first we see… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
![“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.” quote by Jacques-Louis David](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0e9/jacques-louis-david-55514_art_the-artist-must-be-a-philosopher-socrate_583995.png)
