Beauty Is Not an Ornament to the Good Life, It Is at Its Heart
Beauty is perceived by the spirit. As a spiritual matter, it must be cultivated. It requires energy and a kind of spiritual pedagogy.
Wendy Farley • Beguiled by Beauty
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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First, beauty evokes a longing for fullness and creation, even in the form of duplication. We want to tell others about beautiful paintings we have seen, beautiful songs we have heard, even beautiful arguments we have read. The desire to spread the beauty one beholds acts as a force not only for beauty but also for truth. "[T]he beautiful person or... See more