Sublime Quotes - Page 9

• Life is a way of perfection. You need to work on yourself. You become a good person. If you do your work you will discover sublime feelings.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Perfection, Feelings, Good Person

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.

  Richard Marshall

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Genius

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.

  Dean M. Davies

  Prayer, Father, Home

  4 Copy quote

• Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Often Is, Ideas, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can kind of live in the same moment, holding hands together. How life can go from the ridiculous to the sublime to the tragic all in one breath.

  Peter Vack

  Holding Hands, Tragedy, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan Browne, Judee Sill, Sublime Frequencies releases, Ali Farka Touré, John Fahey, Flower Travellin' Band, Sagittarius, Toumani Diabaté, Philip Glass, lots of different stuff.

  Robin Pecknold

  Flower, Different, Coltrane

  4 Copy quote

• ... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Philosophical, Discovery, Goes On

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1846). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope”, p.13

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Witty, Profound, Butlers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.151

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.

  Arne Glimcher

  Ice Cream, Expression, Icons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [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

  Pride, Development, Belief

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock (2001). “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why investigate when you know? Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bullying the enlightened Present. The ignorant are not satisfied with what can be demonstrated. Science is too slow for them, and so they invent creeds. They demand completeness. A sublime segment, a grand fragment, are of no value to them. They demand the complete circle... the entire structure.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Running, Bullying, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.90, Library of Alexandria

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, World, Moments

  41 Copy quote

• At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Policy Making, Doe

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.153, Crown

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Soul, Sensual

  4 Copy quote

• By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by the mind of man was framed by the Romish clergy for the aggrandizement of their own order.

  John Adams

  Men, Order, Law

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.5, Hackett Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  18 Copy quote

• To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

  Aldous Huxley

  Half, World, Psychedelic

  7 Copy quote

• It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Children, War

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Brain, Consciousness, Notes

  7 Copy quote

• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Expression, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Promise, Attention

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

  Walter Scott

  Humble, Ambition, Destiny

  4 Copy quote

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

  William James

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Pursuit

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Tequila, Choke, Shots

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, Ideas, Lovely

  7 Copy quote