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Exaltation Quotes

As man now is, God once was; as God is now man may be.

Lorenzo Snow (1984). “The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, Bookcraft Pubs

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

I have found power in the mysteries of thought.

Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.67

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation.

Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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

John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.165, Simon and Schuster