Aestheticism In The Quotes

#1. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature.

Okakura Kakuzo

#2. Pleading with those eyes, it's obvious what I'm meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.

Patrick Bryant

#3. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Susan Sontag

#4. I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

John Newton

#5. Who killed Christianity in Europe? Was it, as (Max) Weber himself predicted, that the spirit of capitalism was bound to destroy the Protestant ethic parents, as materialism corrupted the original aestheticism of the godly?

Niall Ferguson

#6. I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.

Antony Gormley

#7. You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.

A.W. Tozer

#9. I concede his greater ingenuity. It bodes well for his endeavor. Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism. I wonder what he intends to do after he's saved the world. I comprehend the Word, and the means by which it operates, and so I dissolve.

Ted Chiang

#10. Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

#11. Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect,thoughts,imagination,creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.

Shilpa Sandesh

#12. And they're right - what could be scarier, stupider, than
staying together? How else could you totally guarantee that you would always have reasons to be terrified?

Rob Sheffield

#13. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

#14. The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again. The laburnum will be as yellow next June as it is now. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars. But we never get back our youth.

Oscar Wilde

#15. However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience is mine.

Suzanne Collins

#16. I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

Marva Collins

#17. All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

Rajneesh

#18. Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism.

Ted Chiang

#19. Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

#20. Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

Oscar Wilde

#21. God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

Paul Erdos

#22. That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs, you might leave behind your own bones to be dug up at a later age, but none of those artifacts could express how you felt.

Kate Atkinson

#23. On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.

Wes Fesler

#24. He fetishized limits.

Rick Perlstein

#25. The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

Georgia Harkness

#26. Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

Fernando Pessoa