Beauty Quotes and Sayings
We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; uglinwaa, vice and unhappiness have none. ~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre. Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly love — that stuff is all fantasy and veneer...You couldn’t afford to let the beauty of the thing seduce you too far or you forget the truth, and the truth was always hard as iron bloody bars. ~ Janice Galloway. The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Beauty in art has the same base as truth in philosophy. What is truth' The conformity of our judgments with that of others. What is a beautiful imitation' The conformity of the image with the thing. ~ Denis Diderot. In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, pervert and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark. ~ John Warcup Cornforth. |
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