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Sublime Quotes by Denis Diderot
- If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you…
- Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
More Sublime Quotes
- He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — C.S. Lewis
- It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and… — Honore de Balzac
- There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott
- Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence… — Samuel Johnson
- And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of… — Abraham Lincoln
- For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble… — Francis of Assisi
- The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime. — Joseph Campbell