Armstrong says something very interesting here about beauty and experience. What he says exactly is, “To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience.” There’s a lot going on in here and it’s pretty fascinating stuff. From my point of view, beauty is anything that has meaning and that I, as a human, can relate back to. I feel that society views beauty as more of a superficial subject these days. To them, beauty is on the outside. It is not looking at anything thats going on under the skin; it’s simply how someone looks and if they’re attractive. There’s a difference between attractive and beauty in my opinion. Attractive is just that, a physical attraction to someone based on looks. Beauty, as I said earlier, is something that is below and comes from the heart and that I can relate to. Armstrong is saying that we often misinterpret beauty for the superficial things in life that are supposed to mean something, when in all reality they don’t. It’s a great eye-opener of a sentence. Something else that Armstrong says that ties in really well with this is in regard to Schiller’s point, “we can’t hope to see why beauty matters to us unless we pay attention to them both”. Beauty isn’t a thing we can just uncover one day and totally understand. It takes time and confusion. We need to pay attention to the things that we don’t see as important in society in order to truly understand the beauty of someone or something. Always look deeper is what he’s saying in more broad terms. Because you never really know anything until you see it raw.