Quote of Henry David Thoreau - The perception of beauty is a...
Biography - Henry David Thoreau:
American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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Quotes about beauty:
Quotes for: perception
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
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