Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

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 an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion.… — Unknown Author
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—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 clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés 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
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the… — Thomas Paine
There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am… — Jonathan Swift
We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime… — Ronald Reagan
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The… — Guillaume Apollinaire
There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on. — Eric Hoffer
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires. — Michelangelo
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find… — Socrates
Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /… — John Milton
Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the… — Victor Hugo
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most… — Max Weber
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty... — Lora Brody

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