found in my camera roll during a flight https://t.co/udHuiaaBl8
Beauty = Permanence + Purpose
From Interintellect talk
What is beauty?
Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.
Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.
Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.
Connection is beautiful, because the s... See more
Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.
Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.
Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.
Connection is beautiful, because the s... See more
Why Beauty Matters
(and how it has been destroyed by "usability")
A short thread... https://t.co/lBixviXkT9
Nietzsche saw this truth with fierce clarity: only those who live dangerously, who throw themselves into the abyss of effort and uncertainty, truly live at all.
Erik Rittenberry • The Comfortable Life is Killing You
beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.