Sublimity Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

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
To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us… — Albert Einstein
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and… — Annie Dillard
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and… — Jane Austen
I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient… — William Wordsworth
Sublimity is the echo of great mind. — Unknown Author
The sublimity of the human mind cannot be brought to greater height while he is trapped. — Samuel Kermis

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