“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. — Lady Hester Stanhope Copy Share Image
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
How great are the advantages of solitude! How sublime is the silence of nature's ever-active energies! There is something in the very… — Estwick Evans Copy Share Image
From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves,… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult… Many people are often wrong…… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.” — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James Copy Share Image
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image