Edmund Burke Quote

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.


A Philsophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (ed. 1757)


There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible;...

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible;...

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible;...

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible;...