If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
— Anatole France · Beauty
The World Motivation
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
— Anatole France · Beauty
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.