Ocupation: Essayist
Life: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Birthday: May 25
Death: April 27
No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation
topic: Different Faces, Expression, Soul