At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man’s longing or to still his fears.
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At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things — but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man’s longing or to still his fears.
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Beauty is an open letter of recommendation that wins hearts for us in advance.
The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
Lacking strength beauty hates the understanding for asking of her what it cannot do.
Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there’s nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice.
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?