Quotes About Aestheticism

#1. 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

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

Georgia Harkness

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

Susan Sontag

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

Kazimir Malevich

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Ted Chiang

#10. 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

#11. As a cosmion incarnating the cells of a new body, New Lights will function as transitional vessels through which transforming energy can renew the divine image in the world, moving postmoderns from one state of embodiment to another.

Leonard Sweet

#12. While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.

Alain De Botton

#13. When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

Natalie Imbruglia

#14. 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

#15. There's this misconception that artists should create their own mythologies, through how they live. Not true. They should create their own mythologies through their work. In whatever styles, textures and approaches they choose to use.

Guy Mankowski

#16. Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.

Luis Negron

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

Geraldine Brooks

#18. Sorry no one could see how beautifully happy we were.

Rod McKuen

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

Patrick Bryant

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Chinle Miller

#21. My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Jessica Hagedorn

#22. What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out?

Jennifer Walkup

#23. Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat.

Jules Verne

#24. This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

Steven Gerrard

#25. He fetishized limits.

Rick Perlstein

#26. He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. "Have you been drinking?" The question was more curious than accusatory. "No," Bast said. The innkeeper raised an eyebrow. "I've been tasting," Bast said, emphasizing the word. "Tasting comes before drinking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. 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