The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it… — William James Copy Share Image
Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory?… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step… — Paolo Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“CHOOSE A SUBLIME IDEAL If you dedicate yourself to a sublime ideal, your life will continually grow in richness, strength and intensity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless,… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr 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
Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Messi always plays at a sublime level. He's the best player in history. — Ousmane Dembele Copy Share Image
“There is little but the sublime to help us through the ordinary in life. Alain (Émile-Auguste Chartier)” — Antoine Laurain Copy Share Image
