Sublimated Quotes

#1. I was actually under a lot of heaviness when I was younger. I thought of myself as an old soul. I was very obsessed with death. Basically, I didn't really have a youth - I sublimated all that into my identity and my music.

Ariel Pink

#2. The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

Christopher Dawson

#3. Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ...

H.G.Wells

#4. No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.

Viktor E. Frankl

#5. I think art is sublimated libido. You can't be a eunuch priest, and you can't be a eunuch artist.

Anthony Burgess

#6. The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.

Karl Kraus

#7. Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,
balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Jeremy Collier

#8. The slaves of developed industrial civilization are sublimated slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

#9. You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

Cassandra Clare

#10. In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

John Thorn

#11. We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

Kenneth Oppel

#12. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#13. A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.

Susan Sontag

#14. Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Tom Robbins

#15. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. Sensation invested itself in form and color and radiance, and what his imagination dared, it objectified in some sublimated and magic way. Past, present, and future mingled; and he went on oscillating across the broad, warm world, through

Jack London

#17. Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.

Theodor W. Adorno

#18. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

Michael C. Reed

#19. Like most writers I know, I love being on stage. I've sublimated the dramatic urge by teaching and by making people laugh.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#20. American energy ... is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural dislocations which must be, for the most part, ferociously sublimated. This energy has mainly been sublimated into crude materialism

Susan Sontag

#21. [ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

Kang Chol-Hwan

#22. Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats.

Robert Breault

#23. When words fail to express the exalted sentiments and finer emotions of the human heart, music becomes the sublimated language of the soul, the divine instrumentality for its higher utterance.

Hans Hinrich Wendt

#24. A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.

Fulton J. Sheen

#25. The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.

Mark O'Connell

#26. Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.
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Rachel Naomi Remen

#27. Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Roger Bacon

#28. The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore.

Justus Von Liebig

#29. If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

Jason Calacanis

#30. I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.

Adam Braun

#31. Effective churches manage their resources - budgets, schedules, personnel - to accomplish the work of God in their communities without making efficiency the ruling principle of the congregation.

Thomas White

#32. We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Amory Lovins

#33. My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death.

Charles Bukowski

#35. Always, instead of the best, she found herself struggling to make the least-worst decision.

Andrea K. Host