The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cog...nate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the beautiful changes In such kind ways,... Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear, Your head like the golden-rod,... And we will go sailing away from here To the beautiful land of Nod.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments t...hat pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You will not find science annihilating personality from the government of the Universe and making of God as ungovernable, unintell...igible, blind, often destructive physical force; you will not find jurisprudence formulating as an axiom the absurdity that man and wife are one, and that one the man--that the married woman may not hold or bequeath her own property save as subject to her husband's direction; you will not find political economists declaring that the only possible adjustment between laborers and capitalists is that of selfishness and rapacity--that each must get all he can and keep all that he gets, while the world cries laissez faire and the lawyers explain, "it is the beautiful working of the law of supply and demand;" in fine, you will not find the law of love shut out from the affairs of men after the feminine half of the world's truth is completed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessn...ess of the true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In 1862 the congregation of the church forwarded the church bell to General Beauregard to be melted into cannon, "hoping that its ...gentle tones, that have so often called us to the House of God, may be transmuted into war's resounding rhyme to repel the ruthless invader from the beautiful land God, in his goodness, has given us."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here we have the beautiful British compromise: a man can say anything, he mustn't do anything; a man can listen to anything, but h...e musn't be roused to do anything. By freedom of speech is meant freedom to talk about; speech is not saying-as-an-action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the m...illstone weighs on the breast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »