Famous quotes containing the word sovereign:
“Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.”
—Michel Foucault (19261984)
“My maiden Isabel,
Reflaring rosabel.
The fragrant camomel;
The ruddy rosary,
The sovereign rosemary,
The pretty strawberry;
The columbine, the nept,
The jelofer well set,
The proper violet:”
—John Skelton (1460?1529)
“If we study nature attentively, alike in its great revolutions and in its minutest works, it is impossible not to admit enchantmentgiving the word its fullest meaning. Man can create no force; he can but use the only existing force, which includes all others, namely, Motionthe incomprehensible Breath of the sovereign maker of the universe.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)