Sublimity Quotes

31 Sublimity quotes by 28 unique authors

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that… — Laozi
Great indeed is the sublimity of the creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven. — Laozi
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like… — Swami Vivekananda
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and… — Victor Hugo
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
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms… — Bruce R. McConkie
Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to… — Paul of the Cross
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of… — Fisher Ames
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom… — Virginia Woolf
Wonder-the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge-promises to become the point of departure for genuine… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art… — Denis Diderot
But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any… — Galileo Galilei
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. — Norman Douglas
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the wilderness should pass… — Thomas Cole
In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world. I want to ask… — Theodore Roosevelt
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known… — Charles Krauthammer
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. — Henry Miller
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. — Baron de Montesquieu
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. — Edgar Allan Poe
Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. — Thomas Hardy
It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding… — Albert Einstein
So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?… — Virginia Woolf

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