“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.” HumansRealityInspirationBeautifulUnderstandingOffersInsightAlternativesGenerousConsolationOutlookSympathetic Author:A.C. Grayling
“My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.” TwoBookHomeDreamWould BeAbleBeautifulPayMinutesProduceOffersFinishedDustCopiesPrintJacketsScenariosFeesBookshops Author:William Gibson
“What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.” PeopleWayTryingI CanCountryBeautifulLawLife IsCultureAsksEnjoyOffersOur CountryAustralianBeautiful Country Author:Pauline Hanson
“In The Moon, Come to Earth Philip Graham takes us on the best kind of journey, as he simultaneously reveals the fascinating city of Lisbon--its neighborhoods, its writers, its customs, its cuisine--and offers an intimate portrait of his beloved family. With his far-reaching intellect Graham is the ideal travelling companion, and The Moon, Come to Earth is a beautiful and surprising book.” KindBookEarthBeautifulCitiesJourneyOffersMoonIdealsIntellectBelovedIntimateReachingFascinatingNeighborhoodCompanionCustomsSurprisingPortraitsCuisinePhilipBeloved Family Author:Margot Livesey
“People have this idea that if you're sexual and beautiful and provocative, then there's nothing else you could possibly offer.” PeopleIfsIdeasBeautifulOffersProvocative Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Our relationships as experimentalists with theoretical physicists should be like those with a beautiful woman - we should accept with gratitude any favours she offers, but we should not expect too much nor believe all that is said.” ShouldBelieveSaidBeautifulAcceptingToo MuchGratitudeOffersOur RelationshipFavourPhysicistBeautiful WomenTheoretical Author:Lev Artsimovich
“Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.” HumansMeanHandsBeautifulFantasyNovelMeditationWrittenSeeingFieldsStrangeOffersOriginalsEnvironmentalGuidesInvisibleBeastExplorationEssaysDegradationCommentaryFablesHybridWhimsicalEnvironmental DegradationWhat It Means To Be Human Author:Anthony Doerr
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” IfsWayLongBigsAgeBeautifulCertainPossibilityObjectsOffersConceptsInfiniteUglyBoringContraryRangeNosesElephantsUnpredictableFiniteUglinessEaglesTrunksBeaksBeautiful Objects Author:Umberto Eco
“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?” MenGivingShouldMayHomeBeautifulEasyTechnologyFitOffersStonesWingsSpotsDustPrisonerTransitionToilWormsBricksPilgrimageTimber Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The computer needs...even by accident, offers incredible beautiful things that are very seductive. And if you forget about, or if you don't have an idea to begin with, it is very easy to be seduced and that is not a good use of the computer.” IfsNeedsIdeasUseBeautifulEasyForgetOffersComputerIncrediblesAccidentsBeautiful ThingsSeductive Author:Massimo Vignelli
“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.” WorldEnoughBeautifulSpiritualCultureEasySidesOur LivesMaterialsFineOffersLuckyI RealizedMaterialismBeautiful ThingsConsumedNeglectedGreat SuccessMaterial World Author:Tom Ford