Sublime Quotes

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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
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more… — Joseph Priestley
Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one… — Anatole France
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us.… — Henry David Thoreau
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes… — Unknown Author
In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition… — James Russell Lowell
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. — Francis of Assisi
Never has good weather felt so bad. Never have flowers inspired so much fear. Never has the warm caress of a sunbeam seemed so ominous.… — Joel Achenbach
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster. — Albert Einstein
With every rising of the sun, Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays; there let them… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge… — Khalil Gibran

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