Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness. — George Lois Copy Share Image
God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Sublime was like my first hip-hop-y, surfer-rap hip-hop. But then once I found Tupac, I never looked back. — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.” — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through… — Paulo Mendes da Rocha Copy Share Image
I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime… — Tea Leoni Copy Share Image
At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They… — Dean M. Davies Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Yet there was a momentary hint of blue sky, and even this bit of light was enough to release a flash of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image