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Letter "S" » symmetry
«Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.»
Author: Derek Walcott
| Keywords:
fragments, reassemble, reassembles, reassembling, symmetry, vase, vases
«Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a perfect structure, dedicated wholly to the honor and glory of a great, good and loving God.»
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.»
«Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Borrowers, collections, creators, shelves, spoiler, spoilers, symmetry, The Spoiler
«Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
confused, impression, portion, size, symmetry
«The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, forms, limitation, mathematical, particularly, sciences, symmetry
«The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
chief, definiteness, degree, demonstrate, demonstrating, mathematical, sciences, symmetry, The Chief
«Symmetry is what we see at a glance»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
glance, glanced, glances, glancing, symmetry
«Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?»
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