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Sublime Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ...…
- Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches…
- In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
- When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know…
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
- It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or…
- 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,…
- Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with…
- But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him…
More Sublime Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- 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
- Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. — Jean Baudrillard
- There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central… — Sam Abell
- For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell
- All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann
- Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime,… — Saint Augustine
- 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