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A day spent
without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of
mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a
poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal
to human life.
-- Lewis Mumford
1895-1990, American Social
Philosopher
Beauty is ever
to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the
souvenir of pain.
-- Robert Nathan
1894-1985, American Novelist
Walk on a
rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you
will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over
a rainbow trail.
-- Edward A. Navajo
Beauty is
whatever gives joy.
-- Hugh Nibley
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In the
beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of
perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man
believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he
forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has
bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an
all too human, beauty.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
Nothing is
beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all
aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us
immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate
man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith
defined.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher
It is easy to
be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
-- Frank O'Hara
1926-1966, American Poet, Art
Critic
Beauty is our
weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them
limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the
melting flux of nature.
-- Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author,
Critic, Educator
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