#sublime

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It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.


Polly Toynbee


#activity #asking #brain #degrees #electrical

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.


Terri Windling


#always #been #brutal #dark #each

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little child - Some think me middling, others silly, other foolish - every one thinks he sees my weak side against my will; when in thruth it is with my will - I am content to be thought all this because I have in my own breast so graet a resource. This is one great reason why they like me so; because they can all show to advantage in a room, and eclipese from a certain tact one who is reckoned to be a good Poet - I hope I am not here playing tricks 'to make the angels weep': I think not: for I have not the least contempt for my species; and though it may sound paradoxical: my greatest elevations of Soul leave me every time more humbled - Enough of this - though in your Love for me you will not think it enough.


John Keats


#keats #poet #romanticism #solitude #sublime

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.


Thomas Lynch


#done #entirely #gets #i #ignored

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.


Kathy Mattea


#capture #chocolate #dessert #fruit #i

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


#compatriots #consider #difficult #difficult moment #duty

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.


Keanu Reeves


#i #noble #sorry #sublime #very

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


#deliver #enabled #find #i #inspiration

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