“Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.” MindPleasureStylePleaseBenefitsSurpriseUnexpected Book:Selected poetry and prose Source: Selected poetry and prose
“I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.” ThinkingLooksMadeStyleLike YouBenefitsMade ItFringe Author:Julian Schnabel
“Once we realize that the strangers are here forever and won't go away, then, like husband and wife in the old-style marriage, we would try to find a way of living together peacefully and with mutual benefit. The sooner we understand that in a globalized world the diasporic nature of cohabitation is never likely to end, that it will always be with us, I believe such modus vivendi will be found.” WorldWayTryingBelieveEndsTogetherFoundI BelieveRealizingForeverWifeStyleHusbandBenefitsStrangerMutualGoing AwayHusband And WifeLiving TogetherCohabitationMutual Benefit Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.” ShouldPersonsDoeBornVirtueCenturyFashionStylePeriodsProveBenefitsAdvantagePhilosopherWorthyTriumphGreat PersonAgeless Author:Baltasar Gracian