(23 quotes found)
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
William Blake
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“As to 'Don Juan,' confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world?”
Lord Byron
“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Schiller has the material sublime.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion.”
“I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.”
Edmund Burke
“Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!”
William McFee
“Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.”
William James
