Quotes by Sublime Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. Edmund Burke sublimelighttaste One source of the sublime is infinity. Edmund Burke sublimesourceinfinity 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! Edwin Hubbel Chapin sublimemusicbeautiful 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. Eleanor Catton sublimelanguageviews Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. Edwin Hubbel Chapin sublimesorrowchristianity The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sublimereligiousbible Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. Emilio Ambasz sublimearchitectureschool It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of. Emily Carr patrioticsublimepower The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine however profound and sublime will be effective unless it is presented as the embodiment of the one and only truth Eric Hoffer effectivenesssublimeprofound Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! Erik Larson parissublimereading There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. Eric Hoffer sublimeliteraturegiving Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion. Eugene Delacroix sublimeenoughwant The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime. Felix Adler sublimeracewriting When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy. Fergus McCann sublimegoalgames Dear God, please reveal to us your sublime beauty, that is everywhere, everywhere, everywhere, so that we will never again feel frightened. Francis of Assisi dear-godsublimespiritual Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty. Francis of Assisi povertytreasuresublime There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. Frederick Soddy indifferenceenvironmentsublime Like a dart the present glances, Friedrich Schiller sublimetimepast The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present. Gangaji sublimealiveusual When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio. Gary Clark, Jr. hip-hopsublimeguitar«1234567891011»
