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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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