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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God! - William R. Alger Like evil, sublimity is also contagious. - Honore de Balzac I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. - Edmund Burke Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. - Edmund Burke One source of the sublime is infinity. - Edmund Burke Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The sublime," says Longinus, "is often nothing but the echo or image of magnanimity"; and where this quality appears in any one, even though a syllable be not uttered, it excites our applause and admiration. - David Hume Hear we not the hum of mighty workings? - John Keats (1) The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes. - Jean de la Bruyere The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius. - Dionysius Cassius Longinus From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in nature,--a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death,--then utter the word "God" before the child. A great misfortune, a great blessing, a great crime, a noble action, are building-sites for a child's church. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. - John Ruskin Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. - Christoph Martin Wieland
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