“ No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. ”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836). copy citation
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Source | Nature |
| Topic | beauty reason |
| Date | 1836 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nature,_Addresses_and_Lectures/Nature |
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“Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.
The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate.”
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