Clown Quote by Maurice Willson Disher

“Give me the ridiculous, because it's a gateway to the sublime.”

— Jeff Mach

“From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.”

— William Hazlitt

“Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane…

— Frances Hardinge

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes…

— Thomas Paine

“We expect brilliance from the pulpit, but often accept mediocrity in our souls.”

— Barna Group

One source of the sublime is infinity.

— Edmund Burke

“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become…

— Oliver James

“The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous,”

— James Howard Kunstler

“Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.”

— Vincent van Gogh