The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc

The study of physiognomy is one of the chief means of a knowledge of mankind

An odor affects us only when we first come in contact with it, and the first glass of wine is the one which gives us its true taste: in the same way, it is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression

This is why beauty is so captivating: it is a fundamental thought of nature: whereas the individual is only a by-thought, a corollary.