“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.” — Nicholaus Patnaude 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
There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide. — Harvey Rice Copy Share Image
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James Copy Share Image
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but… — Alan Judd 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
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
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime /… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright,… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the… — Victor Hugo 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
[Buddhism and Christianity] are in one sense parallel and equal; as a mound and a hollow, as a valley and a hill.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...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
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Let me breathe You in, Let me taste the meaning of sublime; Let my soul mingle with You, Let me be one… — Neelam Saxena Chandra Copy Share Image
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam Copy Share Image
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time. — James Kenneth Stephen Copy Share Image
“We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.” — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Live your life in a sublime spirit of confidence and determination. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
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