Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
You have to be careful when you use beauty as a guide. There are many theories people didn't think were beautiful at the time but did find beautiful later - and vice versa.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
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