Aesthetics Quote by James Elkins

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

— Terence McKenna

Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and…

— Harold Rosenberg

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“But sometimes, when you have to change, the metamorphosis is so profound, that the old you can’t look the new you in the eyes.…

— K. Larsen

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of…

— Carol Tavris

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important…

— Jenna Wortham

“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

— John Cheever

Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is the door…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all…

— Henry Miller

Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating…

— Marc Hauser