“Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.” WorldBeautifulPleasureEndureCalmIntellectSensualitySensualBordersClimbingBubblesSublimeUnseenSoapSparklingSensual PleasureSoap Bubbles Author:John H Aughey
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.” RealBeautifulBeautySensualLandscapeRefugeRudenessReal OnesBison Author:Fernando Botero
“Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.” SoulBeautifulBeautyMoralitySensesSensualitySensualUpliftingPleasant Author:Franz Grillparzer
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.” IfsShouldPersonsSoulBeautifulFireProduceColdTasteFairsCriticismWoodsSelfishLocalsSpotsSensualDryElegantSculptureInclinationUmpiresCultivationBeautiful Soul Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition