Will Durant Quotes

What Is Beauty? Why Do We Admire It? Why Do We Endeavor To Create It? [ ... ]
[B]eauty Is Any Quality By Which An Object Or A Form Pleases A Beholder. Primarily And Originally The Object Does Not Please The Beholder Because It Is Beautiful, But Rather He Calls It Beautiful Because It Pleases Him. Any Object That Satisfies Desire Will Seem Beautiful: Food Is Beautiful - Thai's Is Not Beautiful - To A Starving Man.

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