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“What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.”

Ifs Humans Reason Use Action Human Beings Beauty Teach Produce Taste Appreciate Mathematics Proof Rational Aesthetics Calculations Assessment Good Taste

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.”

Heart Moving Loses Beauty Effects Produce Emotional Universal Absence

Book:The City and the Stars

Source: The City and the Stars

“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”

Men Believe Order Force I Believe Change Beauty Economic Greatness Produce Shapes Continuing Abstraction Exceptional Nobility Shifting Validity

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.”

Beauty Greatness Produce Overwhelming Odds Goliath Overwhelming Odds

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.”

Thinking Art Beauty Produce Capable Response Transcendent

Author:Agnes Martin

“Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.”

People Motivational Values Quality Beauty Advice Produce Wise Words Crowds Following Lasting Good Advice

Author:Denis Waitley

“Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.”

Mind Doe Character Hands Given Beauty Produce Excellence Physique Good Mind

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.”

Needs May Beautiful Can Do Beauty Produce Trusted

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe