Attempting Quote by Immanuel Kant

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

— Madame de Stael

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of…

— Eleanor Catton

Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.

— Victor Hugo

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect;…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to…

— Victor Cousin

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom…

— Jen Wang

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as…

— George Saunders

“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something larger or something of the same scale with which it…

— Elaine Scarry

“I remembered an unpleasant weekend spent struggling to comprehend the philosopher Immanuel Kant's explanation of the difference between calling something beautiful and calling it…

— Mark Adams

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

— Joseph Cornell

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge