Beauty, Iain Pears

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind. (Marco)

― Iain Pears, An Instance of the Fingerpost (1998)

Beauty, Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

― Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Nature and Selected Essays

Religion, Jawaharlal Nehru

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth and ignorance.

- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)