the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man;… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime. — Joseph Cornell Copy Share Image
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can… — David Deida Copy Share Image
It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
There are great truths at the foundation of Freemasonry, truths which it is its mission to teach and which is constituting the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that! — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
So important , indeed, is it (Light), and so much does it pervade with its influence the whole Masonic system, that Freemasonry… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced.… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
