Quotes About Sublime

to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?' 'To be free', said Combeferre.

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

Il y a des illusions touchantes qui sont peut-être des réalités sublimes.

to all those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation of Bonaparte to the army of Italy: Soldiers, you are in need of everything; the enemy has it.

L'âme qui aime et qui souffre est à l'état sublime.

He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness. A grave situation being given, he had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he might be sublime.

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan éclaire, mais l'aube éclaire encore mieux. Combeferre préférait peut-être la blancheur du beau au flamboiement du sublime.

Dichoso, aún en medio del dolor, aquél que a Dios ha dado un alma digna del amor y de la desgracia! El que no ha visto las cosas de este mundo y el corazón de los hombres a esta doble luz, no ha visto nada verdadero, ni sabe nada. El alma que ama y padece se encuentra en un estado sublime.

Victory, when it is in accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other sublime. For our own part, we prefer martyrdom to success.

A really sublime moment is that when the last ray of light breaks in upon the soul, and marshals into a single group all the scattered disconnected truths there. There is such a vast difference between the moment which follows, and the moment which precedes this one, between what we were before, and what we are after, that the word grace has been invented to convey the idea of this magic stroke, of this light from on high.

Under the homeliest of features, there was something angelic.

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

humor is godless and entirely human since humor runs counter to the sublime: instead of transcending, you are made acutely aware of the skin in which you exist.

Henri Bergson writes that humor is godless and entirely human since humor runs counter to the sublime: instead of transcending, you are made acutely aware of the skin in which you exist.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions. Because it expresses the fact that the human spirit in a certain sense. Is greater than the entire universe. Boredom, is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the souls boundless needs.

omne ignotum pro magnifico est).

He rained upon it curses from God and High Heaven, and withered it with a heat of invective that savoured of a medieval excommunication of the Catholic Church. He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike.

Dispassion argues superior self-control; sublime patience is the very hall-mark of divine knowledge, and to retain an unbroken calm amid all the duties and distractions of life, marks off the man of power.

If any thing connected with the hardness of the human heart could surprise us, it surely would be the indifference with which men live on, engrossed by their worldly objects, amid the sublime natural phenomena that so eloquently and unceasingly speak to their imaginations, affections, and judgments.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

To me, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,