Sublime Quotes

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Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The… — Edwin Markham
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's… — Pope John Paul II
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's been written that the most sublime figure in American history was George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. He personified… — Ronald Reagan
Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never… — Thomas Jefferson
As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good… — Lord Byron
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is… — George Eliot
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the… — John Keats
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting… — Henry Rollins
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of… — Rem Koolhaas
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a good deal more… — Jonathan Rosenbaum
In a world of travail and cheap wine the ridiculous becomes sublime — Unknown Author
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the… — Christine Schutt
Music has to be recognized as anâ€¦agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion.… — Unknown Author
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance… — Barry Lopez
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. — George Sand
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! — Thomas Jefferson

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