Sublimity Quotes

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. - Henry Miller

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer. - Victor Hugo

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. - George Norman Douglas

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions. - Charles De Montesquieu

Sublimity is the echo of great mind. - Longinus

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. - Edgar Allan Poe

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. - Lao Tzu

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. - Fisher Ames

I would stand, If the night blackened with a coming storm, Beneath some rock, listening to notes that are The ghostly language of the ancient earth, Or make their dim abode in distant winds. Thence did I drink the visionary power; And deem not profitless those fleeting moods Of shadowy exultation: not for this, That they are kindred to our purer mind And intellectual life; but that the soul, Remembering how she felt, but what she felt Remembering not, retains an obscure sense Of possible sublimity. . . . - William Wordsworth

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written. - William Jones