Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me.… — Yasmin Mogahed 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
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel,… — Adrienne Young 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
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination… — John Keats 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
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
First, I think it proper to express my unshaken opinion of the immortality of my soul or mind; and to dedicate and… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from… — David Deida Copy Share Image
It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better,… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
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