Edmund Burke Sublime Quotations

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.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.