#beauties

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#archetypal #attention #beauties #because #bodies

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#everything #feel #life #made #shaped

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. ↗

— Theocritus

#eye #faults #lover

One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. ↗

— Stellan Skarsgard

#between #characters #delicate #dragon #girl

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? ↗

— Roman Payne

#ancient-greeks #balance #beauties #cycles #europe

One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#charming #country #day #diversity #every

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

#beauties #contain #fiction #globe #great

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. ↗

— James Wyatt

#beauties #country #forgotten #gothic #long

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#consider #everything #flaws #makes #making