For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell 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
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
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
This is the process of Self realization about which Eastern mystics have written. It is the process of salvation to which much… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If a PEAK EXPERIENCE is what happens when you actively unplug yourself from the Void – even if just for a second… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still… — Jack Welpott Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein 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
This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and… — Gary Tonge - Http://VisionAfarcom Copy Share Image
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects,… — Philip Gerard Copy Share Image
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I’d grown up feeling like the trees had eyes, each tangle of roots like a brain that held memories. I could feel,… — Adrienne Young 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
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and… — Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Copy Share Image
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon 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
“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
Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Sublimity of Nature is God’s way of shaking you awake from the dream – it’s not about fear or dread but… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
