"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it." ― Samuel Johnson Topic(s): Beauty Tags: against, freedom, theory More From Samuel Johnson "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." "Disease generally begins that equality which death completes." "Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions." More In Beauty "The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."― George Santayana "Goodness is beauty in the best estate."― Christopher Marlowe "Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls."― James Russell Lowell