Northrop Frye Quotes

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

• Beauty
• Ego
• Dangerous
• Stronger
• Temptation
• Goodness
• Nonsense

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• I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Think
  • Vote
  • Stronger

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• Beauty without expression is boring.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Expression
  • Boring

• I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Long
  • Ego

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Help

• There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Important
  • Beauty

• I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Stronger

• The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Beauty
  • Independence

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Thought
  • Temptation
  • Behind

• From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • True
  • Expression
  • Stronger

• Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Years
  • Ego

• Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • She
  • Model
  • Beauty

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sun
  • Shadow
  • Goodness

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Eye
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Red

• Temptation is just that - she's the girl you claim you don't want, but in the moment, you have more drinks than you should in the club. One thing leads to another, and suddenly you've done something really stupid. You've jeopardized what could've potentially been a really great relationship, all due to temptation.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Great
  • Done
  • She

• We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Tears
  • Ignorance
  • Appreciation

• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Ego
  • Anger
  • Point Of View

• There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Martyrdom
  • Self-abnegation

• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Beauty
  • Ego
  • Dangerous