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Sublime Minds have noble visions ; Average Minds, by contrast, are trying to conformity.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
— Mason Cooley
No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the cross of Christ I glory,Towering o'er the wrecks of time;All the light of sacred storyGathers round its head sublime.
— John Bowring
Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
— Josh Billings
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
— James Kenneth Stephen
For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.
— Anthony Bourdain
No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing
— Derek Parfit
And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.
— Jules Verne
Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
— James Russell Lowell
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
— John Dryden
Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.
— Bryant McGill
I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
— Lady Hester Stanhope
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE
— Dinty W. Moore
Wrap your coat, O sublime dream, around the child.
— Franz Kafka
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
— Charles Spurgeon
The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
— Oscar Wilde
No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have never forgiven someone who has hurt you deeply, you are yet to experience one of the joys of sublime living.
— King Samuel Benson
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.
— Mary Roach
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
— Victor Hugo
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
— Vincent Van Gogh
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting - In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural. — Alberto Caeiro
Richness and fat does need,In logic clever fine deeds,
But paunches never do breed,
Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.
[45] - 2 — Munindra Misra
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.
— Michelangelo
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
— Joseph Campbell
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
— Thomas Aquinas
The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.
— Nicholaus Patnaude
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
— Pierre Schaeffer
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
— Albert Einstein
Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
— Keanu Reeves
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
— Mason Cooley
Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.
— Marvin Gaye
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.
— Victor Hugo
It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter.
— Tyne O'Connell
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
— Rem Koolhaas
How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!
— Thomas Jefferson
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
— William McFee
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
— Jean Baudrillard
The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.
— George Lois
There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
— David O. McKay
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
— Edmund Burke
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
The most sublime act is to set another before you.
— William Blake
Poetry is sublime nonsense.
— Marty Rubin
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
— Thomas Aquinas
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
One source of the sublime is infinity.
— Edmund Burke
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
— G.K. Chesterton
Beautiful and sublime.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Few things are more sublime or characteristically human than the cross-fertilization of cultures.
— Charles C. Mann
Feeling grateful is good; showing appreciation to those you feel grateful to is sublime.
— Andy Lacroix
Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
— Aunguttara Nikaya
The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is.
— Eckhart Tolle
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
— Joseph Addison
To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me...
— Virginia Alison
Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.
— William Blake
Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
— Terry Pratchett
Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.
— Janeane Garofalo
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
— John Wesley Powell
Both,' Garp wrote, 'were of the opinion that the practice of law was vulgar, but the study of it was sublime.' They
— John Irving
To make a happy fireside climeTo weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life. — Robert Burns
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
— E. Stanley Jones
Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
Art is not democratic. Art is sublime.
— Minae Mizumura