#sublime

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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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. ↗

— Socrates

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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#aloofness #environment #external #indifference #something

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#only #ridiculous #road #step #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

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— James Russell Lowell

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