Sublime Quotes

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

Fish play in the water birds play in the sky ordinary beings play on the earth sublime beings play in display.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.

There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

He had opened his heart to the sublime indifference of the universe

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

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 .

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Divine love is the sublime boss of the universe.

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

I don't believe the half I hear, Nor the quarter of what I see! But I have one faith, sublime and true, That nothing can shake or slay; Each spring I firmly believe anew All the seed catalogues say!

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

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.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

There is something inspiring and sublime about the little forget-me-not flower. I hope it will be a symbol of the little things that make your lives joyful and sweet.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror