Quotations

Love, Beauty, Passion and Poetry

Lover's gift: W. CongreveBeauty is the lover’s gift.William Congreve, 1670-1729, English writer, The way of the world

Absolute: SantayanaThe lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. Attributed to George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher

Poetry: Santayana and E. Morin
A dawning love floods the world with poetry, a lasting love floods daily life with poetry, and the ending of a love tosses us into the prose world.E. Morin, French philosopher and sociologist, Method V

Love makes us poets and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Attributed to George Santayana, 1863-1952, American philosopher

Other eyes: Alberoni
To fall in love corresponds to our desire of seeing the world with other eyes.Francesco Alberoni, Italian essayist, Le choc amoureux

Symbol of beauty: SugerIt is only through symbols of beauty that our poor spirits can raise themselves from things temporal to things eternal Abbe Suger, XIII Century, cited in Os criadores, D. Boorstin 


Mysterious and terrible: Dostoievsky
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.F. Dostoievsky, 1821-1881, Russion writer, The Brothers Karamazov