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  1. Marshall McLuhan _ The Medium is the Massage

    All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,
    book-quoteridiculoussublime

  2. Alain de Botton _ The Art of Travel

    If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surprising that things should be thus. We are the playthings of the forces that laid out the oceans and chiselled the mountains.
    book-quotetravelworldsublime

  3. Alain de Botton _ The Pleasures and Sorrows of

    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.
    book-quotetechnologyhumilitynature

  4. Jean Baudrillard _ Cool Memories

    The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...
    book-quotewritingsimplicitysublime

  5. Robert G. Ingersoll _ Some Mistakes of Moses

    As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear.It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason.
    book-quoteworldknowledgefear

  6. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The World as Will and

    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.
    book-quotesatisfactiontragedysublime

  7. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
    book-quotelovesufferingsoul

  8. Terry Pratchett _ Guards! Guards!

    Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
    book-quotelifesublime

  9. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
    book-quotemadnesshorrorsublime

  10. Robert G. Ingersoll _ The Liberty of Man, Woman and

    Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim-one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. . Compare with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while .The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart.We have advanced. .
    book-quotesacrificeintellectheart

  11. Haruki Murakami _ A Wild Sheep Chase

    A friend to kill time is a friend sublime.
    book-quotekilling-timesublime
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