#sublime

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#cherish #faith #human #imbecility #led

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#cannot #duty #language #less #more

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion! ↗

— William McFee

#hour #man #moment #passion #some

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#human #human imagination #imagination #measure #realities

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

— E. Stanley Jones

#before #character #creed #jesus #our

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

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