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"If eyes were made for seeing beauty is its own excuse for being." Why do we need an excuse for being?

From Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Rhodora

Posted - May 8, 2019
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  • 14795
    Because we are human beings and we are meant for seeing ...:)D 
      May 8, 2019 3:16 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    The question is "why do we need an excuse for being?"
      May 8, 2019 3:25 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    It's just what Nature and Everloution wanted for us Rosie....nothing else ,We are all here ,good and bad,just make the most of what you can while trying not to step on other people toes...:) 
      May 8, 2019 6:59 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    So we don't need an excuse for being then? I don't know D I read these famous quotations that folks adore and some of them make no sense. Like this one. If beauty is its own excuse for being what about everything else? See my problem? Sometimes I get stuck in muck that doesn't bother others. I wish I knew why. Thank you for your reply! :)
      May 8, 2019 7:24 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    Please see my answer to this question. It is the flower that is beautiful. 
      May 8, 2019 7:59 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    I think you misunderstand.  What it means is that beauty is reason enough for a beautiful swamp flower - like the Rhodora -  to exist.  It doesn't have to have any other practical purpose for us than just being beautiful. 
      May 8, 2019 7:55 AM MDT
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