Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Of course it is very possible that Mr and Mrs Andrews were engaged in the philosophic enjoyment of unperverted Nature. But this in no way precludes them from being at the same time proud landowners. In most cases the possession of private land was the precondition for such philosophic enjoyment – which was not uncommon among the landed gentry. Thei
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing
the drunkenness of passion.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
And there on the twenty-fifth of February 1927, was the drafting of Article 58 of the Criminal Code—the net that would eventually ensnare us all.
Amor Towles • A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
Beneficent intention in this instance is a document proposing a new organization: Der Bund—the order, the confederacy, or, more simply, the band.52
Richard Rhodes • Making of the Atomic Bomb
each individual adding by his mere presence to the pleasure of all others, all helping to the greater happiness of each. You may thus often see vast numbers of persons brought closely together, poor and rich, young and old, Jew and Gentile.”
Ariel Sabar • Heart of the City: Nine Stories of Love and Serendipity on the Streets of New York
Right from the beginning, it was a place where ties were optional, and first names compulsory.
Adrian Wooldridge • The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 12)
THE COLLOQUY
Philip Carr-Gomm • Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry
Peter and William received the consolamentum from an Italian Perfect in Cuneo, a town in south-west Piedmont, which had been a centre for exiled Languedocian Cathars since the middle of the century. Then, around St Martin’s Day (11 November) 1297, Bon Guilhem reappeared in Ax. He informed the Autiers’ extensive network of family and supporters that
... See more