The Philosophotographer

Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal, that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year.

—Epictetus

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked.

—Alain, The Gods

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

—Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

There is such a thing as a luminous red, but a color is luminous as a result of its context, in its context.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on Colour

Between ourselves, these are things that I have always seen to be in remarkable agreement: supercelestial thoughts and subterranean conduct.

—Michel de Montaigne, “Of Experience”