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Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.

— Subhash Kak

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Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

If social media can bring the sense of freedom, it can also bind people into delusional cults.

The Circle of Memory, An Autobiography (2016)

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

The Loom of Time (2016)

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

The Prajna Sutra (2007)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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