#exalted

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#aristocracy #background #chivalry #civilization #exalted

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#anybody #because #beyond #buddha #else

Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse. ↗

— Wendell Mayes

#exalted #man #most #nothing #once

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#came #compassion #deep #exalted #high

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#back #body #end #exalted #his

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#himself #wishes

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#dream #every #exalted #flesh #glory

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #exalted #i #i am #image