Sublimated Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine…
— Hans Hinrich Wendt
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to…
— Christopher Dawson
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I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it seemed part of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
— Michael C. Reed
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Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.
— Theodor Adorno
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Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I’ve sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.
— Francine du Plessix Gray
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Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.
— Anthony Burgess
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American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most…
— Susan Sontag
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Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.
— Robert Breault
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In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place…
— John Thorn
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When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These…
— C.S. Lewis
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A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the…
— Susan Sontag
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You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.
— Cassandra Clare
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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
— Tom Robbins
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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired…
— Ted Chiang
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Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you…
— Rajneesh
Who Wrote These Sublimated Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Sublimated Quotes as follows: