Socrates rejected the Greek assumption that physical beauty was necessary for happiness, claiming instead that reason would bring virtue and virtue would bring happiness.
即使我们对《古兰经》持怀疑态度,美是神圣起源的证据吗?
Even if we give the Qur'an the benefit of the doubt, is beauty proof of divine origin?
诸如"什么是真的?"、"人们可以知道真相吗?"以及"美是什么?"这样的问题都是哲学问题。
Questions like“what is real?” and“can the truth be known?” and“what is beauty?” are all philosophical questions.
有一次我问我大女儿,我说妈妈有个访问,问我美是甚么。
One time I asked my eldest daughter, I said my mother had a visit and asked me what beauty was.
美是理想,而理想--无论是我们的或是文明的欧洲的理想--都还远远尚未形成。
The good is an ideal, but this ideal, both ours and that of civilized Europe, is still far from having been worked out.
研究美是一场决斗,诗人恐怖地大叫一声,随后即被战胜。
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being defeated.
但这不也意味着在其他旅行,我缺乏美是归咎于我们迟到吗?
But wouldn't that imply that on other trips, my lack of beauty was to blame for us arriving late?”?
美是一种价值,也就是说,它不是对事实或关系的感知,它是一种情感,我们的意志或鉴赏的情感。
Beauty is a value, that is, it is not a perception of a matter of fact or of a relation; it is an emotion.
在这篇文章中,吴冠中明确指出:“抽象美是形式美的核心,人们对形式美和抽象美的喜爱是本能的。
Wu called himself a formalist:“Abstract beauty is the core of formal beauty and the love of both formal and abstract beauty is instinctual.”.
我可以说,美是无处不在的,它和化妆、金钱、种族或社会地位都无关,更多和你自己有关。
Now I can say that beauty is everywhere, and it's not a matter of cosmetics, money, race, or social status, but more about being yourself.”.
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