Sublimity Quotes - Page 2

• To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Reflection, Mind

  Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Men, Doe

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.28, 谷月社

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Taught Us, Intelligence

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• Man is encompassed with a dome of incomprehensible wonders. In him and about him is that which should fill his life with majesty and sacredness. Something of sublimity and sanctity has thus flashed down from heaven into the heart of every one that lives.

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Men, Heaven

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Knowing, Degrees, Different

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.268, Library of Alexandria

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• Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.

  Annie Dillard

  Hands, Ideas, Facts

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.

  Albert Einstein

  Order, Feelings, Desire

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• Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

  Virginia Woolf

  Luxury, Isolation, Knows

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

  Fisher Ames

  Language, Purity, Admirer

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• We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

  Victor Hugo

  Prayer, Believe, Religion

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• Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Music, Religious, Teaching

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• Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Love, Attitude, Promise

  "The Christian and Anxiety".

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• I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Jesus, Shining

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• But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Two, Secret

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• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

  Norman Douglas

  Wisdom, Dying

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• Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

  Paul of the Cross

  Flower, Artist, Sky

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• Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.53, Advaita Ashrama

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?

  Thomas Huxley

  Fate, Issues, Degrees

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

  E. B. White

  Communication, Reading, Two

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Generations, Kitsch

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• When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think, an individual caught up in the sublimity of a revolution then things are very different and the Kantian ethic is shown to be limited in its value.

  Alison Assiter

  Thinking, Different, Matter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  Thomas Starr King

  Lying, Feelings, Mind

  Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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• To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Desire, Doe, Panorama

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