He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
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?
For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.
It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.
A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.