The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. — Norman Douglas Copy Share Image
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature… — Albert Einstein 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
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
The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer.… — Alexander Pope 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
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
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
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
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
Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with… — Albert Pike 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
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
“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
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
“From my insufficiency to my perfection, and from my deviation to my equilibrium From my sublimity to my beauty, and from my… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Only in moments such as this, in the company of sublimity, do we notice ourselves breathing and marvel at the act.” — Jessica Elizabeth Turner Copy Share Image
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent… — Sunderlal Bahuguna 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
When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think,… — Alison Assiter 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
As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image