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"The mind is so entirely filled with it's object, that it cannot entertain any other, nor by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by irresistable force" Edmund Burke.
"Any practical activity will, provided that it moves by its own urge to fulfilment, have aesthetic quality.” John Dewey.
“(the) pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character." George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman(1903).
"All the hope of my days I find in the beauties of nature that ever please my eyes" Kamo No Chomei, 1153 or 1155-1216.
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