More from Iain Banks
- The Hydrogen Sonata (2013), Chapter 7 (p. 127)
- Feersum Endjinn (1994), Chapter 9, Section 2 (p. 265)
Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.
The State of the Art (1991), “Piece” (p. 75)
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
