Sublime Quotes

380 Sublime quotes by 297 unique authors

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power. — Jean-Francois Millet
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the… — Bodhidharma
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Justus von Liebig
It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. — Jean de la Bruyere
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness… — Eric Hoffer
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. — Joseph Addison
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the… — Mortimer Collins
The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from… — Hector Berlioz
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. — Guillaume Apollinaire
It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane. — Alain de Botton
Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and… — Alain de Botton
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be… — Jane Porter
When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. — Charles Saatchi
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable,… — Agnes Martin
Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime. — Michael Kimmelman
What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead,… — Walter Darby Bannard
My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our… — Richard Schmid
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand,… — Erasmus Darwin
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy. — Thomas Aquinas

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