How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“When we travel, we aim for the sublime. It's the ridiculous stuff, however, that we tend to treasure the most.” — Erik Torkells Copy Share Image
Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love — Traci Lords Copy Share Image
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through… — Paulo Mendes da Rocha 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
There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill…[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
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
It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better,… — William Lloyd Garrison 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
For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble… — Francis of Assisi 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
Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But when Aragorn arose all that beheld him gazed in silence, for it seemed to them that he was revealed to them… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies. — Patrick Demarchelier Copy Share Image
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...] imaginative literature situates itself somewhere between truth and meaning [...]” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
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