“For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,--that truth is His body and light His… — Joseph Addison 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
Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana… — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It… — Ezekiel Hopkins Copy Share Image
“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Horse [Man you will find here a new representation of the universe at its most poetic and most modern Man man man… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
