Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.
I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.
The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.
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!
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
We suffer from a repression of the sublime.
When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.
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.
. . . I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
During the age Atlantis, there were only several hundred thousand people living on our planet. They lived in a sublime state of harmony with nature. At that time, because of the purity of the earth's aura, it was much easier to meditate.