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“Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.”

World Ends Beautiful Beauty This World Blame Useless Proportion Permission Beautiful Things Hammers Rubies Emeralds

Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories

Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories

“We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.”

World Beauty Moral This World Waste Obligation Preserves Moral Obligation

Book:Friday

Source: Friday

“The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.”

World Inspirational Happiness Imagination Justice Beauty Fantasy This World Owners My Imagination Imagination And Dreams Imagination And Reality Imagination Reality

Author:Blaise Pascal

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.”

World Trying Humans Littles Made Beautiful Given Enjoy Human Beings Beauty Sea This World Tasks Rose Sunset Truthful Beautiful Things Sublime Dew Transcendent Beautiful Sunset

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.”

Men World Mind Heart Made Today Past Emotion Beauty Generations This World Greatness Appearance Impulse Women Beauty Past Generations

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity.”

Source: These are the Sacraments

“I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.”

People Thinking World Mind Realizing Beauty This World Perfection Response Mysterious Bad People Mysterious Things

Author:Agnes Martin

“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

World Art Seems Lying Lost Growth Beauty Design This World Empowerment Function Personal Growth Profound Contact Collectives Communion

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art