The Philosophotographer

Nothing perhaps is more surprising in this world of ours than the almost infinite diversity of its appearances.

—Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

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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

‘Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call,
But the joint force and full result of all.

—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it is caught in the fabric of the world. But because it moves itself and sees, it holds things in a circle around itself; they are incrusted into its flesh, they are a part of its full definition.

—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind”