Susan Neiman, Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them....
Tag: beauty
Ilyas Kassam, Reminiscence of the Present: Spiritual Encounters of the Analytically Insane
There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed....
Plato, Phaedrus
O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold,...
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things...
Plato, The Symposium
…when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen – only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he’s in touch with no images), but to true...
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain....
Jess C. Scott
The human body is the best work of art....
Faraaz Kazi
Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the original! The...
Julie Garwood, The Prize
A woman can’t do anything about her appearance. Either she’s pretty or she isn’t. But her character is quite another matter....
John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time....
