Quotes about sublime
sublime
From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step. Napoleon Bonaparte
sublime alternatives lessons
Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves. Alain de Botton
sublime realization world
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics. Bayard Taylor
sublime use way
The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word. Bodhidharma
sublime infinity source
One source of the sublime is infinity. Edmund Burke
sublime sorrow christianity
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
sublime events wonderful
What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations. Benjamin Disraeli
sublime tiny spirit
Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
sublime half world
To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme. Aldous Huxley
sublime works writer
There's a book called 'Where The Wild Things Are,' by American writer Maurice Sendak... it really is the most sublime book. It's a picture book, but it works at so many levels, and it's fantastic. Graeme Base
sublime world phenomenal
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? Donna Tartt
sublime roles care
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime. Angela Lansbury
sublime essentials thieves
If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. Denis Diderot
sublime useless doe
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
sublime enchanting charm
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. Carl Friedrich Gauss
sublime sure word
The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day. Raf Simons
sublime should mediocre
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. Giacomo Casanova
sublime eloquence whole
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part. Jean de la Bruyere
sublime nominations oscars
I went from everyone saying, "She-can't-act-she-can't-act-she-can't-act," to an Oscar nomination. So there was something quite sublime about that! Keira Knightley
sublime melancholy superb
Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime. Immanuel Kant
sublime want enough
Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. Eugene Delacroix
sublime alleys dear-life
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. Henry Miller
sublime facts knows
There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. George Canning
sublime ugly
Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! Friedrich Nietzsche
sublime storm genius
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. George Sand
sublime treasure poverty
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty. Francis of Assisi
sublime telescopes binoculars
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime. Mason Cooley
sublime steps ridiculous
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous. Theodor Adorno
sublime sorrow delight
The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. George Eliot
sublime innocence innocent
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. Helene Cixous
sublime elements canyons
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. John Wesley Powell
sublime indifference environment
There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. Frederick Soddy
sublime steps ridiculous
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.