All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Sublimity of Nature is God’s way of shaking you awake from the dream – it’s not about fear or dread but… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
In our learning, let us not neglect the fountain of revelation. The scriptures and the words of modern-day apostles and prophets are… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Sublime places gently move us to acknowledge limitations that we might otherwise encounter with anxiety or anger in the ordinary flow of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunnaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the… — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never… — Charles Adolphe Wurtz Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In his time the City was made more fair than it had ever been, even in the days of its first glory;… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image