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“He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.”
“Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.”
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts and feelings combine to create profound...”
“God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word concerning all that appears within being; beauty is...”
“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”
“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the *beautiful*. The stirring of each is pleasant, but in different ways. The sight o...”
“Back then, I was still just a fan of music. And to be a fan of music also meant to be a fan of cities, of places. Regionalismand the creative scenes thereinplayed an important role in the identific...”
“In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.”
“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy re...”
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.”
“Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”
“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, th...”
“There is a sort of aesthetic poverty about conservatism”
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
“Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable...”
“Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.”
“When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on the basis that his work is too 'literal' or too 'co...”
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a persons fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human b...”
