Freedom has its life in the hearts
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions,
the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed -
else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
History does not teach fatalism
History does not teach fatalism.
There are moments when the will of a handful
of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
- Charles de Gaulle -
He that would make
He that would make
his own liberty secure,
must guard even his enemy from opposition;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
- Thomas Paine -
The fact in short is that freedom
The fact,
in short,
is that freedom,
to be meaningful in an
organized society must consist of
an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
- Samuel Hendel -
There is nothing ugly
There is nothing ugly;
I never saw an ugly thing in my life:
for let the form of an object be what it may,
light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable -
I hope you have lost your good looks
I hope you have lost your good looks,
for while they last any fool can adore you,
and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure
and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig.
Then you shall see me coming out strong.
- George Bernard Shaw -
Beauty?
Beauty?…
To me it is a word without
sense because I do not know where its
meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
- Pablo Picasso -
One summer night
One summer night,
out on a flat headland,
all but surrounded by the waters of the bay,
the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
Millions of stars blazed in darkness,
and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages.
Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.
My companion and I were alone with the stars:
the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky,
the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear,
a blazing planet low on the horizon.
It occurred to me that if this were a sight
that could be seen only once in a century,
this little headland would be thronged with spectators.
But it can be see many scores of nights in any year,
and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants
probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead;
and because they could see it almost any night,
perhaps they never will.
- Rachel Carson -
Beauty deprived of its proper foils
Beauty deprived of its proper foils
and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty,
just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
- John Ruskin -
We ascribe beauty
We ascribe beauty
to that which is simple;
which has no superfluous parts;
which exactly answers its end;
which stands related to all things;
which is the mean of many extremes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -