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 POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: ‘Buy me! I’m going to save your life! I’m going to make you thin!’ When you come to that POM bottle, it’s like an oasis of calm.
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.
We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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