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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Quotes

“There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.”

“Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur.”