...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity ... — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Of course, there's nothing wrong with deer burgers and venison chili, but with a little gusto, those stalwarts can go from satisfying… — Jonathan Miles 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
The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
A sublime soul can rise to all kinds of greatness, but by an effort; it can tear itself from all bondage, to… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Both died, ignored by most; they neither sought nor found public favour, for high roads never lead there. Laurent and Gerhardt never… — Charles Adolphe Wurtz Copy Share Image
What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than… — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi 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
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history." — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
But dare rather to quit the platform, plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, & swim far, so shall you come back… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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