Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Believe in God, in His providence, in a future life, in the recompense of the good; in the punishment of the wicked;… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
“Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon; a delicate epiphany growing on grass. I serenade the breeze into dancing… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel… — Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet Copy Share Image
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste,… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
