Brigham Young
Religious Leader
"The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy"
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Exaltation
43 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Brigham Young
Religious Leader
"All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!"
Euripides
Playwright
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought."
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"There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy."
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"The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry."
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"In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation."
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"It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation."
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"It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction."
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"The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."
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"Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation."
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"No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation."
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"Many are the stories I have heard about myself. I have mistresses I have never met. When I hear that I am a sodomist and a zoophalist then I shall know that I have reached the high point of fame, but I suppose I can hardly expect such exaltation for many years."
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