#sublime

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#sublime #beauty

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nature #night #sorrow #sublime #wickedness

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

— Jean Baudrillard

#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. ↗

— William Bennett

#any #assume #child #does #elementary

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#deny #essential #great #kind #petty

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #boxer #confidence #dance #dreams

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#grotesque #means #nature #offer #our

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#giving #his #someone #sublime #us

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#sublimest #things #truth #world

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. ↗