Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world..

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to ….

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognitio….

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity..

Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift….

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere ….

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship..

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a cons….

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the sp….

'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 w….

This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur o….

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spri….

Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime..

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between..

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumpt….

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime..

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part..

My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, li….

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and….

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are sl….