It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a di…

When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced i…

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and man…

Toutes les beautes contiennent, comme tous les phenomenes possibles, quelque chose d'eternel et quelque chose de transitoire - d'absolu et de particulier.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

The Greeks were the classicists of antiquity and they are still today the preeminent classicists. What marked all they did, the classic stamp, is a direct simp…