What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than… — Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that's what life is about--the search for such a connection. The search for magic. The search for the inexplicable. Not in… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are two Italies… The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
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Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I love moving water, I love ships, I love the sharp definition, the concentrated humanity, the sublime solitude of life at sea.… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The last decisive energy of a rational courage which confides in the Supreme Power is very sublime. It makes a man who… — Randolph Sinks Foster Copy Share Image
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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
Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let us think today of the prospect of sharing in a sublime and blessed existence such as is portrayed in the text… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
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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
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It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Almost everybody wore a curious limpidity of expression, like newborn babies or souls just after death. Dazed but curiously dignified… after a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
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The bottom line is I love good music and I try to shy away from all these labels that people think are… — Brad Nowell Copy Share Image
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