#sublime

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#artistic #beauty #bible #chinese #every

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#ear #ever #fifth #into #man

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#courage #deeply #enchanting #go #into

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#begin #crime #failure #greatly #line

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. ↗

— James K. Polk

#beloved #beloved country #borders #contentment #country

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#satisfaction #sublime #tragedy #life

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #pain #soul #sublime #suffering

Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime. ↗

— Andrew Elfenbein

#coleridge #lesbianism #stc #sublime #romantic

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#ridiculous #step #sublime