"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 "To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly." "The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book." "There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either." More In Beauty "The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art."― Edward Tufte "To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."― Timothy Radcliffe "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony."― Benjamin Britten