Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.
Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.
In all nations truth is the most sublime, the most simple, the most difficult, and yet the most natural thing.
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
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.
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
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.
Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.
Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.
What is virtue? reason put into practice: -talent? reason expressed with brilliance: -soul? reason delicately put forth; and genius is sublime reason.
I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.