Category Archives: Beauty

Friedrich Nietzsche

“You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”

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Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“The cold washed the colors of the earth, revealing that they were not colors but only the elements from which color was to come…”

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Andre Gide, The Immoralist

“Nowadays beauty no longer acts; action no longer desires to be beautiful; and wisdom works in a sphere apart.”

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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences … but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.”

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