Sublime Quotes
380 quotes by 303 authors
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own…
— Francis of Assisi
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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
— Jean Baudrillard
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that…
— Sam Abell
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
— Sam Abell
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
— Lucretius
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers, the Ens Entium!…
— August Weismann
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course…
— Saint Augustine
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Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of…
— Walter Scott
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Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and…
— Samuel Johnson
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
— Aldous Huxley
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
— William James
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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the…
— Winston Churchill
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