#sublime

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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.


E. Stanley Jones


#before #character #creed #jesus #our

I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.


George Saunders


#beauty #believe #capitalism #eradicate #even

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?


Pierre Schaeffer


#baroque #called #civilization #most #music

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#beauty #simultaneously #sublime #which

Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call "negative emotion." The equine superstar's arched neck, dilated eyes, and flared nostrils are in fact the very picture of overwhelming dread. The painting's subject matter reflects he philosopher Edmund Burke's widely circulated Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, which asserts that because "terror" is unparalleled in commanding "astonishment," or total, single-pointed,--indeed, rapt--attention, it is "the ruling principle of the sublime.


Winifred Gallagher


#focus #sublime #beauty

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.


Terry Pratchett


#life #sublime #humor

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.


Joyce Grenfell


#get #happiness #moment #night #out

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.


Abdus Salam


#craft #data #equipment #experimental #i

...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#means-justifying-the-ends #profound #religion #sublime #imagination

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