BEAUTY

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(1084 votes)  Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(972 votes)  Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(883 votes)  Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(831 votes)  Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man -- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(814 votes)  In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(768 votes)  Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(748 votes)  Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(675 votes)  There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(648 votes)  Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

James Allen
1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

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(647 votes)  I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(639 votes)  Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Christopher Morley
1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

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(637 votes)  Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Mary Arnim
1866-1941, Australian-born British Novelist

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(635 votes)  There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(634 votes)  Things are beautiful if you love them.

Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright

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(625 votes)  What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Father Andre

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(613 votes)  What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist

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(609 votes)  The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(608 votes)  In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley
1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

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(605 votes)  Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright

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(602 votes)  A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(593 votes)  Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(593 votes)  Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(590 votes)  In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(584 votes)  Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(559 votes)  There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(556 votes)  Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(537 votes)  Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(537 votes)  We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

St. Teresa of Avila
1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic

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(524 votes)  Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(523 votes)  Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar
BC 518?-18438, Greek Poet

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(520 votes)  Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(518 votes)  Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(514 votes)  Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Helen Gurley Brown
American Businesswoman, Founder of Cosmopolitan Magazine

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(514 votes)  I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Jean Kerr
1923-, American Author, Playwright

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(509 votes)  There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

John Ray
1627-1705, British Naturalist

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(505 votes)  All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Fran Lebowitz
1951-, American Journalist

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(504 votes)  Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Thomas De Quincey
1785-1859, British Author

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(502 votes)  There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

Felicia D. Hemans
1794-1835, British Poet

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(500 votes)  One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Arthur Rimbaud
1854-1891, French Poet

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(495 votes)  Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Michelangelo
1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor

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(494 votes)  Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(489 votes)  Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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(488 votes)  If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Upham

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(485 votes)  There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers

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(472 votes)  The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

George Sand
1804-1876, French Novelist

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(469 votes)  Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Charles Reade
1814-1884, British Novelist, Dramatist

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(465 votes)  That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon De L'Enclos
1620-1705, French Courtesan

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(464 votes)  Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

George Bancroft
1800-1891, American Historian

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(464 votes)  By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Vernon Howard
19?-1992, American Author, Speaker

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(453 votes)  Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Tim Robbins
1958-, American Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Writer

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