He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo 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
And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The sublimity of the human mind cannot be brought to greater height while he is trapped. — Samuel Kermis Copy Share Image
In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both… — George Bernard Shaw 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
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
“There is a strange breeze that flows from the mountains. The breeze is tender yet harsh, sublime yet subtle, and it drifts… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon; a delicate epiphany growing on grass. I serenade the breeze into dancing… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
“He knew what retributions your devils are liable to bring for the way you treat your wife and women or behave while… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life. — William Mountford Copy Share Image
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
