“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“It would be better for you to turn around and go into the thick grasses, there where one of those strange grassy… — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and… — Melissa Holbrook Pierson Copy Share Image
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas. — William Blake Copy Share Image
For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
People talk about Frank Sinatra all the time - and they should talk about Frank - but he had the greatest arrangers.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a… — Milton R. Hunter Copy Share Image
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
