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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“There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)