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Quotes About Sublimate

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.
~ Rachel Klein
Pluto has strong atmospheric cycles: it snows on the surface; the snows sublimate and go back into the atmosphere each 248 year orbit.
~ Alan Stern
Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.
~ Mas Oyama
I dreamed I called Batman on the phone and asked, any truth in those rumors about you and Robin? Our relationship is 100% platonic, he replied stiffly. We sublimate. Why do you think we're always out looking for 'bad guys' that we can punish? And the line went dead with a quick click like handcuffs closing on a thin wrist forever.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.
~ Ruth Rendell
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
~ Salvador Dali
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
~ Salvador Dali
I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
~ Joanne Harris
Horror fiction allows us to confront and sublimate our fears of an uncontrollable universe, but the threat verges on the overwhelming and may indeed carry the protagonists away. Spy fiction in contrast allows us to believe for a while that the little people can, by obtaining secret knowledge, acquire some leverage over the overwhelming threats that permeate their universe.
~ Charles Stross
It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.
~ Wilhelm Reich
Perhaps those who grew up among these people might somehow sublimate their ambition, or perhaps there was something in the racial genotype that suppressed it or replaced it
~ Orson Scott Card
Spirit is not opposed to life altogether, but directed only against one level of it. Its mission is not to destroy but to fulfill, to sublimate or—to use the expressions of the Meditations—to transfigure and perfect man's nature.
~ Walter Kaufmann
you wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it would have to flee us of necessity and then the sound of it would be as though it had never been
~ William Faulkner
Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.
~ Andrew W.K.
Having demonstrated the importance of sexuality in motivating human behavior in general, Freud called attention to the sexual factors that undergird a creative life. In Freud's view, creative individuals are inclined (or compelled) to sublimate much of their libidinal energy into "secondary" pursuits, such as writing, drawing, composing, or investigating scientific puzzles. He would have found many data of interest in the seven cases presented here.
~ Howard Gardner