Quotes by Sublime There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. Lion Feuchtwanger ridiculous sublime steps Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. Louis de Bernieres sublime beautiful reality Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory. Louis Pasteur sublime laughing philosophy I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive. Louise Glück sublime age letting-go Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar! Lord Byron sublime cheer giving Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity. Lydia Millet sublime grief humanity inventiveness is childish, practice sublime. Madame de Stael inventiveness sublime practice You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite. Madame de Stael distance sublime beautiful In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne sublime simple truth Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila. Mark Z. Danielewski tequila choke sublime I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. Mark Twain sublime humor funny Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi often-is sublime ideas Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime. Marvin Gaye finding-peace sublime giving Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between. Mary Roach sublime lines space Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. Mary Wollstonecraft sublime serious principles Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime. Mason Cooley binoculars telescopes sublime The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. Mason Cooley sublime writing interesting Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime. Michael Kimmelman clue sublime art I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles. Michael Light sublime ocean west I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime. Michael Light idyllic sublime noble «4567891011121314»
