...proper development of the impulse consists in the perfection of one's rational nature by detachment from "the pollutions of mortality, and all the colors and vanities of human life." 4 From the transcendent standpoint that the trained lover of beauty attains, a particular person will...

...growing and decaying or waxing or waning . . ." but absolute beauty-simple, and everlasting, which is not "clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colors and varieties of human life but the true beauty simple and divine."157 To recognize these seated figures...

...He found that Thayer's use of wings signified transcendence; true beauty is "the divine beauty . . . pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the...mortality and all the colors and vanities of human life."15 American artists could never completely advocate beauty without a purpose or moral, and Thayer,...

...beauty absolute." Socrates offers a question that is at once an aspiration and an inspiration. "But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty — the...mortality and all the colors and vanities of human life — thither looking, and hold converse with the true beauty simple and divine?"10 Neither philia nor...

...and from fair actions to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty . . . the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear...mortality, and all the colors and vanities of human life. . . . Do you not see that in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, we will...

...intimate with God, through the appreciation of beauty. 'But what... if man had eyes to see true beauty - divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed,...clogged with the pollutions of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life - thither looking, and holding converse with true beauty simple...