Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,
but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality),
and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
N.B.: This famous aphorism is often misquoted, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,
but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality),
and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
N.B.: This famous aphorism is often misquoted, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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