beauty

"This business of seeing divine interconnected beauty in people has been happening more and more lately, and I put it down to meditating too much."

"Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction."

"In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our un…"

"Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the l…"

"By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it…"

"Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish."

"I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daemon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, dis…"

"Melancholy sees the worst of things,—things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull."

"When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken.…"

"Both God and man hold each other in equally beautiful contempt."

"Look at Jared Kushner. The poor man looks low T—like he might one day go the way of Bruce Jenner, now Caitlyn Jenner. Jared's not wearing the pants in the Kushner castle. The beguilingly beautiful Iva…"

"As protests erupt across the country, the president hides behind a big, beautiful wall."

"One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony."

"Let us look to beautiful poetry for the material of a beautiful prose."

"What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?"

"It is disgraceful, instead of proceeding ahead, to be carried along, and then suddenly, amid the whirlpool of events, to ask in a dazed way: “How did I get into this condition?"

"If you could have walked on the planet before humans lived here, maybe the Ivory Coast would have seemed more beautiful than La Côte d'Azur."

"Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless."

"Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it."

"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful."