Quotes About Sublime

Illusions may fade, but the sublime remains.

Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its founder was sublime- I have seen through present-day Christianity only too well. That icy coldness mesmerized even me, in my youth- but I have taken my revenge since then. How? By worshipping the love which they, the theologians, call sin, by respecting a whore, etc, To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is the opposite.ov

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...

Were all stars to disappear and die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. —W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

C'est encore à partir du centre et non de l'extérieur que je peux ordonner. Si je ne fais que me conformer à une idée, aussi sublime soit-elle, cela signifie que quelque part existe la violence qui en est le corollaire, car se conformer n'implique-t-il pas déformer ? (p.250)

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Cuando el fin es sublime, todo lo que se sufre para conseguirlo no lo es menos.

Enigmas of physics, when deciphered, might produce a sublime light, but the answers to mysteries of human behavior seldom resulted in glorious revelations.

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever.

Waarom zou iemand die handel drijft in boeken niet lijken op degene die zich met wijn bezighoudt? Ook voor wijn was er iets subliems nodig geweest dat de handel vooraf was gegaan en had geschapen: de wijnstok en de zon.

The mind in its great sublime bliss is nondual, being neither self nor others, for it perceives intrinsic reality, which is before one, behind one, and around one in all the ten directions.

Pitches that rhyme are more sublime.

Prachtig subliem in zijn ondergang, verheerlijkte hij zich in de krankzinnigheid zijner tragedie

Everything that is called life should be sacrificed to the sublime and be a sanctuary of art

until only infinity remained of beauty

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

It was sublime—and the sublime is not to be trusted.

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. —THOMAS PAINE

Beauty is terror" he said "Whatever we call beautiful we quiver before it

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky - so the space where I exist, and I want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?