Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been… — Luis Barragan
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body… — John Muir
No words will ever describe the exquisite beauty and charm of this mountain park – Nature’s landscape garden at once tenderly beautiful and sublime. No… — John Muir
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of… — Bayard Taylor
Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe. — John Muir
And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight,… — Thomas Paine
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. — Mary Roach
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. — Madame de Stael
Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth… — Milton R. Hunter
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is… — Bill Vaughan
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to… — Oliver Goldsmith
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. — Mason Cooley
Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more… — Dorothy Day
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… — Denis Diderot
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. — Havelock Ellis
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — E. M. Forster
But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty… — Lafcadio Hearn
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. — Eric Hoffer
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. — Victor Hugo
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. — E. Stanley Jones
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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