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Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer.
Source: Twilight of the Idols, Expeditions of an Untimely Man, aph. 20, 1889.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, (Oct 15 1844-1900), German philosopher, poet; He was a noted critic of Christianity, conformism and nationalism who wrote The Birth of Tragedy, 1872.