Quotes About Sublime

Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.

Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.

In its dream of the triumph of reason and science, the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century failed in its hope of sweeping away old legends and superstitions like these—partly because the next generation, the Romantics, would condemn the reign of reason and embrace the ancient, the wild and mysterious, the mingling of fear and awe they called the sublime. In

Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.

In describing their search for the sublime, Celtic pilgrims talk of "thin places" where the distance between heaven and earth narrows and the presence of God is more readily felt. Rosalie, the almost nun, worked in a thin place.

El amor que resulta de la estrepitosa caída del mito constituye al máximo placer, la más sublime visión porque en ella se reconoce cada objeto, cada ser y cada evento como manifestación de la Realidad Iluminada, cálida y de la que, además, uno es parte y todo.

Thus are two ideas as opposite as can be imagined reconciled in the extremes of both; and both, in spite of their opposite nature, brought to concur in producing the sublime. And this is not the only instance wherein the opposite extremes operate equally in favor of the sublime, which in all things abhors mediocrity.

The great has terror for its basis... the beautiful is founded on mere positive pleasure...

Both the Sublime and the Beautiful induce a state of submission that is often combined with the possibility of getting lost. They disorientate and undermine purpose. In one of several erotic sections in the Enquiry Burke describes the experience of looking at a beautiful woman's body: it is, he writes, like a 'deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye glides giddily, without knowing where to fix, or whither it is carried'. It

Astonishment is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree, the inferior effects are admiration, reverence and respect.

Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not; for it is impossible to look on anything as trifling, or contemptible, that may be dangerous. There are many animals, who, though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds.

There's something mystic and beautiful in the ineffable.

the most sublime efforts of philosophy can extend no farther than feebly to point out the desire, the hope, or, at most, the probability, of a future state, there is nothing, except a divine revelation, that can ascertain the existence, and describe the condition of the invisible country which is destined to receive the souls of men after their separation from the body.

Agenouillés, ils étaient ridicules, ils étaient fiers et beaux, et vivre était sublime.

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime

God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful.

Means not, but blunders round about a meaning;And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad,It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

Yet a sailor's life is at best, but a mixture of a little good with much evil, and a little pleasure with much pain. The beautiful is linked with the revolting, the sublime with the commonplace, and the solemn with the ludicrous.

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.

This was beauty too. Was there anything in nature that wasn't?