One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

As a means of contrast with the sublime the grotesque is in our view the richest source that nature can offer.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

Peace plenty and contentment reign throughout our borders and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.