Exaltation Quotes

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.