Sublime (philosophy)
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublīmis) is the quality of greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic. The term especially refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
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“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven’s Fifth is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)