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“Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.”

Term Beauty Offers Valuable Traditional Contribution Disorder Emphasis Suggesting Rejecting Redeemed Platonic

Author:John Walford

“The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.”

Men World Humans Term Beauty Tasks New World Comprehension

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, “My body aches,” implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)”

Self Body Black Term White Beauty Conditions Hungry Ache Lame Every Second Implying

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days! He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm. A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.”

“Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.”

Has Beens Art Made Term Beauty Universal Abstract Formulas

Book:The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.”

Ifs Women Term Animal Beauty Example Praise Mathematics Math Circles Mathematical Women Beauty Parallelogram

Book:Gulliver's Travels

Source: Gulliver's Travels

“As a person, I'm pretty much the same except that I've come to terms with who my real friends and supporters are. I don't get particularly friendly with new people at first go.”

People Firsts Persons Real Term Beauty Friends Friendly Supporter Real Friends

Author:Sanjay Dutt

“I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.”

Term Beauty Comedy Perfectionist Tenacious I Am Pretty

Author:Garry Shandling