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Quotation from The Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
“Bold, overhanging, and as it were threatening, rocks; clouds piled up in the sky, moving with lightning flashes and thunder peals; volcanoes in all their violence of destruction; hurricanes with their track of devastation; the boundless ocean in a state of tumult; the lofty waterfall of a mighty river, and such like; these exhibit our faculty of resistance as insignificantly small in comparison with their might”
The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Sublime, § 28, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914)
Kant's catalogue of the dynamically sublime, followed by the claim that such sights attract us when we are safe because they reveal a power of resistance of a different kind within us.
Citation: "Bold, overhanging, and as it were threatening, rocks; clouds piled up in the sky, moving with lightning flashes and thunder peals; volcanoes in all their violence of destruction; hurricanes with their track of devastation; the boundless ocean in a state of tumult; the lofty waterfall of a mighty river, and such like; these exhibit our faculty of resistance as insignificantly small in comparison with their might" — Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, Part I, Analytic of the Sublime, § 28, trans. J. H. Bernard (1914). (id kant-critique-of-judgement-q4)
