Quotes of Exaltation - somelinesforyou

“ The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. ”

- Euripides

“ Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. ”

- Phillips Brooks

“ None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. ”

- Edith Hamilton

“ In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. ”

- Adam Ferguson

“ In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ”

- Stéphane Mallarmé

“ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ”

- Charles Sumner

“ I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us. ”

- Mary Parker Follett

“ If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution — then, it seems to me, all our problems would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise. ”

- Aldous Huxley
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