Sublime Quotes - Page 18

• I leave to others the sublime delights of riding in the storm, better pleased with sound sleep & a warmer berth below it encircled, with the society of neighbors, friends & fellow laborers of the earth rather than with spies & sycophants ... I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Sleep, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Saul Kussiel Padover (1956). “A Jefferson profile as revealed in his letters”

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• For all our penny-wisdom, for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts; that all men value the few real hours of life; they love to be heard; they love to be caught up into the vision of principles. We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had, in the dreary years of routine and of sin, with souls that made our souls wiser; that spoke what we thought; that told us what we knew; that gave us leave to be what we only were.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Real, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.89, Library of America

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• We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.

  Ameen Rihani

  Unity, Deeds, Firsts

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• It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Attitude, People

  Francis, Pope (2017). “With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards”, p.79, Orbis Books

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• Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Giving, Dresses

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

  Thomas Lynch

  Writing, Important, Done

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• The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

  William Bennett

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  William J. Bennett (1986). “First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America”, p.21, DIANE Publishing

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• The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

  Voltaire

  Perfection, Grace, Abuse

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.1061, e-artnow

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• What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

  William Ellery Channing

  Doctrine, Goodness, Eternal Life

  William Ellery Channing (1873). “The Perfect Life: In Twelve Discourses”, p.117

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• Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Believe, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.416, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Steps, Ridiculous

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• A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.

  Voltaire

  Science, Discovery, Should Have

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

  Isaac Newton

  Philosophy, Scripture, Accounts

  "An apology for the Bible". Book by Richard Watson, London 8vo, p. 57, 1806.

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• 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

  Healthy, Brain, Mind

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Collected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace + The Piece of String + Boule de Suif + Mademoiselle Fifi + Pierrot + Two Friends + La Maison Tellier + Ghosts and much more: From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Short Story’ writing, who had influenced W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov and Henry James”, p.1050, e-artnow

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• In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Order, Understanding, Soul

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• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Long, Understanding

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

  A. S. Byatt

  Writing, Creative, Way

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• My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Justice, World

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution”, p.700, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to the thump...thump somewhere beneath muscle and breastbone I remember his arms their sublime ENCIRCLING and the shawdow of his voice "I love you, little girl. Put away your bad dreams. Daddy's here" I put them away, Until Daddy became my nightmare that one that came HOME from work everyday and instead of picking me up, chased me far far away

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Dream, Dad

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• I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged and scarred, you will continue to hunger. Your body will age, you will continue to need. You will want the earth, then more of the earth-- Sublime, indifferent, it is present, it will not respond. It is encompassing, it will not minister. Meaning, it will feed you, it will ravish you. It will not keep you alive.

  Louise Glück

  Letting Go, Age, Needs

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

  Albert Camus

  Heart, Indifference, Universe

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• God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

  Oswald Chambers

  Encouragement, Religious, Blessing

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• 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

  Writing, Race, May

  Felix Adler (1914). “The Standard”

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• Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Change, Sympathy

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 7 (1838)

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• The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

  Albert Einstein

  Personality, Creative, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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