"Do not tire of looking for beauty in the world, but the world can help you."
If it is not
possible to find beauty in the world, where do we find it? What is the nature
of the world's help in our search for beauty? Is beauty a real phenomenon or a psychological
phenomenon? Is it a thing or a feeling?
If
beauty were only a real phenomenon, we would feel it as we feel the coldness of
the snow and the heat of the fire. But beauty is felt and feeling is the
property of the thinking being, whereas sensation is for the sensitive being
such as the animal.
Sensation is the characteristic of a passive being, whether human or
animal, whereas feeling is an exclusively human characteristic, it is the sign
of human efficiency. It is true that beauty is finally a visual or acoustic
scene, a harmony of colors and shapes, which gives the pleasure to the man or a
harmony in the sounds which delight him, but if the man was not qualified to
feel it, he will not feel it. But although the feeling
of beauty is a human capacity, it is nevertheless extremely subjective. It is
different from one person to another it is shaped according to the taste of the
person.
To summarize, the phenomenon of beauty is not
a real phenomenon exposed in front of everyone and perceived in the same manner.
Beauty is like a mirror that does not show itself, but shows what stands before
it. A person who has taste sees things, which people consider ordinary,
beautiful. On the other hand a fool sees ugliness even in the things that most
people consider beautiful.