#behold

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object. ↗

— Toba Beta

#beholder #object #quality #value #beauty

...as I already said, they didn't look like much--but beauty's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? ↗

— Kate Morton

#beholder #eye #beauty

The sun, sides bulging, squashed itself between two hills. It sent up a flare of golden light. The sky, patterned with a million tiny clouds like fish scales was illuminated. ↗

— Karen Foxlee

#beauty

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#animal-totem #animal-wisdom #beauty #beholders #inspiration

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#beholder #both #holder #intoxicating #often

The gods behold all righteous actions. ↗

— Ovid

#behold #gods #righteous

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far