Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price."
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Sublime
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Agnes Martin
Artist
"Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"The most sublime act is to set another before you."
Keanu Reeves
Actor, Producer
"I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime."
Guy de Maupassant
Novelist
"Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness."
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"We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy."
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"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
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"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"
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"The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us."
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"The sun never sets. It is only an appearance due to the observer's limited perspective. And yet, what a sublime illusion it is."
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"Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred."
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"All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer."
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"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
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"In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage with the world. Yet, as we affirm the world in love, we indirectly sense that in letting go of God we have, in fact, found ourselves at the very threshold of God."
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"When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying."
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"But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith ."
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"Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it."
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"I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect."
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"Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything, will really do."
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"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."
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"The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime."
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"Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night."
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"He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."
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"For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous."
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"To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self."
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