The Sublime is said to be characterized by nobility and grandeur that is impressive, exalted and raised above ordinary human qualities. It is said a painful idea creates the sublime passion and concentrates the mind on a facet of experience and produces a momentary suspension of rational activity, uncertainty and self-consciousness. Below are degrees of the sublime:

• Beauty—light reflected off a flower
• Weak sublime—light reflected off rocks in a river
• Sublime—turbulent nature, pleasure derived from objects that cannot sustain the life of the observer
• Full feeling sublime—overpowering turbulent nature; pleasure from violent, destructive objects
• Fullest feeling sublime—understanding immensity of universes extent and duration; pleasure of observer’s nothingness and oneness with nature.