RE TRUTH BEAUTY THE SOUL THE FACE GRACE PREDESTINATION UGLY PHILOSOPHERS AND FEARFUL SYMMETRY

"The face is the soul of the body."

WITTGENSTEIN ALSO SAID, SOMEWHERE, THAT THE HUMAN BODY (NOT THE FACE) IS THE BEST PICTURE WE HAVE OF THE HUMAN SOUL.

"Truth is beauty, beauty truth."

Can this too be true?

Then, what of ugly philosophers (Socrates), and of doctrines like predestination, then?

My grandmother had said 'beauty is as beauty does'. Very different paradigm: good works, etc.Is that like 'good works' , as against, say, predestination, or 'grace'?

That is, I think, quite a 'counterexample', were this ("Truth is beauty, beauty truth.") an argument, rather than 'poetry'.

And if a lion can't talk, it can't be truthful, and if not truthful, then also not beautiful.

But if that, then what of Blake,

"Tiger Tiger, burning bright,

in the shadows of the night,

what mortal hand or eye........"