Quotes by Sublime A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. Havelock Ellis cherish sublime faith To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is. Hazrat Inayat Khan sublime challenges wonder A friend to kill time is a friend sublime. Haruki Murakami sublime I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. Helene Cixous innocent innocence sublime [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth. Friedrich Nietzsche sublime development pride 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. Henry David Thoreau atheism sublime reality You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. Henry Miller dear-life sublime ends Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them. Honore de Balzac sublime two people Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime. Honore de Balzac sublime catholic church 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 Immanuel Kant sublime pain beautiful We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. Isaac Newton scripture sublime philosophy Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime. Immanuel Kant superb melancholy sublime Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont despair sublime order Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. Immanuel Kant sublime understanding reason In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains. Henry David Thoreau sublime fishing time Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Jacques Barzun conventions equality sublime The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us. Henry David Thoreau mountain sublime imagination Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim. James F. Cooper taught-us sublime justice Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time. James Kenneth Stephen republic sublime west Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. James K. Polk patriotic sublime country «23456789101112»