Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

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
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
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius
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
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
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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
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
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — C.S. Lewis
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
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
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. — Aldous Huxley
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
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. — William James
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
What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself… — Francis of Assisi
For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the… — Francis of Assisi
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime. — Joseph Campbell
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of… — Francis Bacon
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel

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