Burke discerned two radically distinct responses to beauty in general, and to natural beauty in particular: one originating in love, the other in fear. When we are attracted by the harmony, order and serenity of nature, so as to feel at home in it and confirmed by it, then we speak of its beauty; when, however, as on some wind-blown mountain crag, we experience the vastness, the power, the threatening majesty of the natural world, and feel our own littleness in the face of it, then we should speak of the sublime. Both these responses are elevating; both lift us out of the ordinary utilitarian thoughts that dominate our practical lives.
Roger Scruton, Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
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McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. USAAF. Thunderbird. Gate Guard at Burke Lakefront, Cleveland
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The “beauty is terror” girlies really need to read some Burke
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Mad Eye’s new look looks exactly like Angus Bumby from Alice Madness Returns
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The Age of Chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold the generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Autumn color, Burke Farmers Market, 2018.
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"La sola cosa necessaria per il trionfo del male è l'inoperosità dei buoni."
(La traduzione, un po' raccogliticcia, è mia.)
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