“Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.”
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Joseph Joubert253
French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z) <br class="br">Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
Source: The Bluest Eye
“Never lose an opportunity for seeing something beautiful for beauty is God s handwriting.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Smile, You're Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3
“Make something beautiful of your life.”
Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone
Source: Cutting for Stone
“Truth, Goodness, Beauty — those celestial thrins,
Continually are born”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
June 14, 1838
Journals (1838-1859)
Context: Truth, Goodness, Beauty — those celestial thrins,
Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,
With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,
Its joy confesses at their recent birth.