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“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state that, on a psychological level, we can describe as mental health or happiness. Like buildings, we, too, contain opposites which can be more or less successfully handled.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
“We can conclude from this that we are drawn to call something beautiful whenever we detect that it contains in a concentrated form those qualities in which we personally, or our societies more generally, are deficient. We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave: a style which carries the correct dosage of our missing virtues.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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