Found Quote by Anonymous

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

— Aristotle

“Philosophy deals in the abstract and the universal, but not in the particular. History deals only in the particular, not with general principles. Poetry…

— Anonymous

Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

— John Ruskin

“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate…

— Giambattista Vico

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it…

— Immanuel Kant

Sublime in the highest style of intellectual beauty, intellect without effort, without suffering... not a feature is correct – but the whole effect is…

— Florence Nightingale

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

— Eric Hoffer

For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.

— Aristotle