When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes…

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural…

— Carroll Quigley

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

— Alexa Hampton

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now…

— Lewis Mumford

The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral,…

— Sri Aurobindo

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But…

— Arne Jacobsen

It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.

— John Maus

I try to get the hip-hop aesthetic, most times without an MC. I don't use a rapper or a DJ to give it the…

— Robert Glasper

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

— A. S. Byatt

Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm kind of still down with Virg Woolf on this one: "women must kill the aesthetic ideal through which they themselves have been 'killed'…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I don't think I was ever thinking critically about my aesthetic, I think it's enough when you're little just to understand that you can…

— Tavi Gevinson

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

— Walter Benjamin

“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's…

— Milan Kundera

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury