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... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies (Sublime Quotes)
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do (Sublime Quotes)
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt (Sublime Quotes)
Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all (Sublime Quotes)
Love is the spirit that motivates the artist’s journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it’s a powerful motive in the artist’s life (Sublime Quotes)
Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others! (Sublime Quotes)
The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art (Sublime Quotes)
Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork (Sublime Quotes)
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly (Sublime Quotes)
It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants (Sublime Quotes)
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his (Sublime Quotes)
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful (Sublime Quotes)
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again (Sublime Quotes)
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation (Sublime Quotes)
A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman’s life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul’s highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills (Sublime Quotes)
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime (Sublime Quotes)
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time (Sublime Quotes)
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains (Sublime Quotes)
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant (Sublime Quotes)
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one’s self (Sublime Quotes)
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life (Sublime Quotes)
It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again? (Sublime Quotes)
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 (Sublime Quotes)
In prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! (Sublime Quotes)
Whether it’s simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers (Sublime Quotes)
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer! (Sublime Quotes)
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it (Sublime Quotes)
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man’s life (Sublime Quotes)
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature (Sublime Quotes)
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! (Sublime Quotes)