Sublime Quotes · Page 10

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

— Mark Twain

Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime…

— James E. Faust

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world.…

— Richard Dawkins

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

When the life of the nation was attempted, when the cause of liberty and human rights called for their aid, they rushed…

— Carl Schurz

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its…

— Barry Lopez

We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…

— Erasmus Darwin

“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian…

— Gottfried Leibniz

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

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

— Harold S. Kushner

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are,…

— Alain de Botton

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge…

— Boris Pasternak

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very…

— Anonymous

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and…

— Bill Vaughan

Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms,…

— Kenny Smith

“Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach.”

— Matthew Gallaway

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

— Emilio Ambasz

Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to…

— Honore de Balzac

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

— Virginia Woolf

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

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

— Madame de Stael