Animus Quote by Horace

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the…

— Washington Allston

“Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by…

— Marcel Proust

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason.…

— George Berkeley

Charm is deceitful and outer beauty is passing, but a man or woman that fears the Lord shall forever be praised, inner beauty conquers…

— Anonymous

“The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic's great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity can't make…

— David James Duncan

“The average man thinks that a little falseness goes with beauty.”

— Thomas Mann

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

— P. D. James

Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics,…

— Leo Strauss

“Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and fitting in.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions…

— William Hazlitt

“Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.”

— Toba Beta