The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We've become a plastic society.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.
Integrity reveals beauty.
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through dynamic movement in equilibrium. Plastic art affirms that equilibrium can only be established through the balance of unequal but equivalent oppositions.