A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
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.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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 arises out of human inspiration.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
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.
Beauty is not caused. It is.