Beauty Quotes
- "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." --
John Keats
- "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." --
Albert Einstein
- "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." --
Albert Einstein
- "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." --
R. Buckminster Fuller
- "Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." --
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." --
Edgar Allan Poe
- "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." --
Khalil Gibran
- "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." --
John Keats
- "Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom." --
Friedrich Schiller
- Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." --
Albert Camus
- "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." --
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." --
Aristotle
- "Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest." --
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- "Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man." --
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand." --
Khalil Gibran
- "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." --
Rabindranath Tagore
- "The perception of beauty is a moral test." --
Henry David Thoreau
- "Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." --
Marcus Aurelius
- "Beauty is a fragile gift." --
Ovid
- "Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind." --
Socrates
- "Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." --
Francis Bacon
- "I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose." --
Charlie Chaplin
- "Beauty awakens the soul to act." --
Dante Alighieri
- "Beauty is not caused. It is." --
Emily Dickinson
- "The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate." --
Victor Hugo
- "Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." --
David Hume
- "Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words." --
Edgar Allan Poe
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