Quotes by Sublime Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. Fyodor Dostoevsky sublime men ideas The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether. Fyodor Dostoevsky sublime goodness beautiful Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly! Friedrich Nietzsche ugly wells sublime There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact. George Canning sublime knows facts The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel sublime expression art The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow. George Eliot sublime speech sorrow What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime. George Eliot omission sublime poet To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. George Sand forgiveness sublime self The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. George Sand storm sublime genius I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. George Saunders sublime believe reality When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime. Giacomo Casanova mediocre sublime should All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive. Gilbert K. Chesterton sublime secret men [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity. Gottfried Leibniz sublime roots science Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. Guy de Maupassant sublime healthy brain Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight. Harold Bloom sublime reading art Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous. Harry Graham aunt sublime steps Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty! Harriet Beecher Stowe sublime steel mind Onward and sublime Harvey Rice tides sublime time 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, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church. Harry Emerson Fosdick sublime challenges thinking In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd. Gilbert K. Chesterton legends sublime men «1234567891011»
