ASSIGNMENT # 4

Subject: English

Topic: Essay (TRUTH IS BEAUTY, BEAUTY IS TRUTH)

Submitted To: Miss Rabia Rustam

Submitted By: Mohsin Ali Khan

Registration No: SP13-BDS-003

Date: June 10, 2013

Human life is as important as those which arise from the spoken or the written
word. Truth and falsehood are qualities that belong to the work of our hands as
well as the words of our lips and are often more eloquent to the eye than the words
can be to the ears. Truth is a beautiful operation, a dynamic thing which does its
beneficent work in a personal and social context. On the other hand, a lie is an
offensive operation performed by one man upon another. Whatever else truth may
be, there is no doubt as to its being valuable, not in a sense that it is good to look
at, but also it does good to those who see it, know it and act upon it. Truth is, in
other words, a value, not residing inertly in the lives that manifest it or the words
that speak it, but operating valuably, and so making a difference for the better to
every mind which accepts it in contrast to a lie. Real beauty lies in truth anything
which is not true and is false cannot be called beautiful. Philosophically the saying
holds good in all walks of human life: arts, social behavior, material existence,
etc.They are expressed by our personalities, by our characters, by our conduct, by
our general talk and conversation in the world. Great truths are often
communicated by works of art: literature, sculpture, architecture, painting, films or
other effective media understood by us that is every portrait painted is either a truth
or a lie or a mixture of the two. Its beauty depends on the degree of truth, and
honesty depicted in it. It also represents the character of the painter.
An artist who put his heart and soul in his work and applies true tones of color
theme and is able to produce a beautiful piece. If his purpose is simply to flatter the
onlooker and paint for the sake of getting outward appreciation, his face cannot be
called a piece of lasting beauty. In social life it would be quite futile and
meaningless to state things of wisdom, religion and beauty. In fact, beauty and
truth, like arts and sciences, form together a kind of commonwealth in which each
serves the rest and is in turn served by them. Beauty is no more likely than an idle
truth. Indeed, beauty is never more falsely consider than when we think of it as
deserving to be looked at. People who look at beauty never see it. They see it when
it operates upon them, moves them and stirs them. The beauty of the truth lies in
the beauty of the personality who said it. The truth when depicted in a piece
becomes a personified beauty. The gates of the beautiful truth are wide and open
for everybody and that light influences hearts of many human beings. Truth
purifies human consciousness and reaches for everything real and beautiful.
As Plato said "Rhythm and harmony are deeply rooted in the human soul,
dominate it, fill it with beauty and transform man to a beautiful thinker”.
As a vehicle of truth all aspects of live become beautiful. So truth and beauty are
linked with each other and this is the basic truth which all humans should know.