Quotes by Sublime Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway. Reginald Horace Blyth sublimesafetypoetry Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising. Rem Koolhaas japansublimequality I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means. Rem Koolhaas sublimefashionmean My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer. Richard Dawkins sublimerealjustice Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since. Richard Marshall sublimebeautifulphilosophy My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses . Richard Schmid sublimereasonart In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of. Ralph Waldo Emerson sublimemenamerica When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying. Ralph Waldo Emerson sunsetsublimemorning Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers. Richelle Mead sublimesoulanimal The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime. Ralph Waldo Emerson sublimesleepheart We suffer from a repression of the sublime. Roberto Assagioli repressionsublimesuffering Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan Browne, Judee Sill, Sublime Frequencies releases, Ali Farka Touré, John Fahey, Flower Travellin' Band, Sagittarius, Toumani Diabaté, Philip Glass, lots of different stuff. Robin Pecknold sublimedifferentflower Yoga's most sublime objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization; however, the tradition also recognizes that this state does not exist in absolute isolation from the world and worldly matters. Rod Stryker sublimeyogaspiritual 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. Rumi yieldsublimeneeds That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. Samuel Taylor Coleridge sublimecuttinghands Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic. Samuel Johnson gossipsublimepromise Sublime moments refracted, Scott Hastie sublimesoulforever I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference. Sergio Leone sublimemeninteresting Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art. Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet sublimebeautifulart The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads. Sivananda sublimenobleteaching«4567891011121314»
