Famous quotes containing the word grandeur:
“Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“From scenes like these old Scotia’s grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad;
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
“An honest man’s the noblest work of God!””
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)