Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness. — Martin Grotjahn Copy Share Image
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods,… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image