Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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