Beauty
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Beauty
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness,
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Shouldn't it be easier than ever before to make beautiful structures? Why isn't it the default? Why can't we seem to?
It is far easier to move the earth than it was 200 years ago, yet the end result gives a feeling that nobody is really trying their best. https://t.co/OZwjXjI29T
We train our focus on beauty here or there—this poem, that architecture—because it is easier than bearing witness to our own story. We begin to gravitate not toward beauty but toward illusion. In this state, you are not approaching what you seek. You are running from your own face. But this is not the way of wonder. Wonder requires a person not to
... See moreCole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
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... 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... See more
It is that the attribute we call beauty is of two kinds. One is a parochial kind of attractiveness, local to a species, to a culture or to an individual. The other is unrelated to any of those: it is universal, and as objective as the laws of physics. Creating either kind of beauty requires knowledge; but the second kind requires knowledge with
... See moreDavid Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“Some people are just nice to look at, but they’re not muses.”