The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once said, "Beauty occurs when all parts work together in harmony so that no one part draws unjust attention to itself."
However, Confucius proposed that beauty was everywhere, not only in visually harmonious places.
The Chinese philosopher said,"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
Then, of course, there's the old proverb, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
If anything, we know beauty is undefinable, just see how beauty standards for women have changed over centuries, or how this model turned her skin condition into her signature look.
What's most interesting to me is that, in all of these theories about beauty, the describer tends to turn outward instead of inward.
Beauty in every instance is used to describe how things appear. The philosophers never suggest that perhaps beauty is anything other than a visual quality.
This idea is strange to me, because sometimes, we hear the sound of a child's laughter, an alluring melody, or an act of kindness and our first thought is, "How beautiful." Nevertheless these sounds and actions have little to do with how things look and everything to do with a person's character, talent, or emotion.
Darling magazine asked these women "What is beauty?" and they each gave answers that were a little unexpected. They certainly didn't agree with some of the greatest philosophers in history!
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