Be Happy, Be Beautiful…
October 2nd, 2008
Be Happy, Be Beautiful…
image: littleredglass
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. David Hume expressed it, beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Moral and Political Essays, 1742).
As with happiness.
Happiness is ultimately a subjective state, a lattice held together and underpinned by those facets of the individual’s cognizance that assimilate with their beliefs about what they should derive happiness from.
Rubens painted voluptuous women that were perceived as the epitome of beauty in his age, while in the 1960s the elfin like figure of women/girls like Twiggy was eulogised as the acme of beauty.
None of it is true. None of it is untrue either. It is a matter of perception.