{"quotes":[{"text":"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.","author":"Edmund Burke","tags":["admiration","excitement","ignorance","passion","sublime"],"id":1737,"author_id":"Edmund+Burke"},{"text":"He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ('A Woman's Vengeance').","author":"Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly","tags":["horror","sublime"],"id":10795,"author_id":"Jules+Barbey+d%27Aurevilly"},{"text":"Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMan man man man man manGive yourself up to this art where the sublimedoes not exclude charmand brilliancy does not blur the nuanceit is now or never the momentto be sensitive to poetry for it dominatesall dreadfullyGuillaume Apollinaire].","author":"Guillaume Apollinaire","tags":["art","charm","modern","modernity","poems","poetry","sublime"],"id":15876,"author_id":"Guillaume+Apollinaire"},{"text":"Oh, you knew that your deed would be preserved in books, would reach tghe depths of the ages and the utmost limits of the earth, and you hoped that, following you, man, too, would remain with God, having no need of miracles. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles. And since man cannot bear to be left without miracles, he will go and create new miracles for himself... Oh, there will be centuries of free reason, of their science and anthropophagy... Freedom, free reason, and science willl lead them into such a maze, and confront them with such miracles and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, unruly and ferocious, will exterminate themselves.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["atheism","free-will","freedom","philosophy","sublime"],"id":22388,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["resignation","satisfaction","sublime","tragedy"],"id":26000,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for all to see,.. Vast sea of love for us to seize. Ease the pain with a sweet kiss, water the Flowers...No shadows of a perfect bliss but the sunshine of ours.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["bliss","ease-of-mind","elated","elation","heaven","love","loving","rays-of-light","spiritual","sublime","sublime-love","sunshine"],"id":40370,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley","tags":["death","hope","life","love","romantic","romanticism","sublime"],"id":45932,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft+Shelley"},{"text":"What then did those immortals see, the writers who aimed at all which is greatest and scorned the accuracy which lies in every detail? They saw many other things and they also saw this, that Nature determined man to be no low or ignoble animal; but introducing us into life and this entire universe as into some vast assemblage, to be spectators, in a sort, of her entirety, and most ardent competitors, did then implant in our souls an invincible and eternal love of that which is great and, by our own standard, more devine. Therefore it is, that for the speculation and thought which are within the scope of human endeavour not all the universe together is sufficient, our conceptions often pass beyond the bounds which limit it; and if a man were to look upon life all around, and see how in all things the extraordinary, the great, the beautiful stand supreme, he will at once know for what ends we have been born.","author":"Longinus","tags":["human-nature","nature","nobility","purpose","sublime"],"id":71335,"author_id":"Longinus"},{"text":"Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.","author":"Jeffrey Fry","tags":["favor","love","reality","sublime","suspension"],"id":72981,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fry"},{"text":"For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling in which fear and respect coagulated into a strangely pleasing feeling of humility, a feeling which the philosophers of the eighteenth century had famously termed the sublime.But then had come a transformation to which we were still the heirs.... Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime had ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["awe","humility","nature","sublime","technology","wonder"],"id":84807,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}