Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful? These quotes go beyond appearances to explore wonder, aesthetics, and awe.

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"Beauty and moral worth are not matters of calculation or measure."
George Berkeley
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"Beauty is nature's way of encouraging life."
Hugo Grotius
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"Beauty enriches the spirit."
Hugo Grotius
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"What we call beauty is the perception of order and proportion."
Christian Wolff
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"Beauty is found in the harmony of all things"
Jean Bodin
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"The pursuit of beauty enriches the soul."
Hugo Grotius
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"Beauty exists in all forms of nature."
Hugo Grotius
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"Beauty and goodness are two expressions of the same truth."
Johann Herder
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"The love of beauty and the pursuit of goodness are one and the same."
Johann Herder
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"Beauty exists in every person and every creation, waiting to be recognized."
Johann Herder
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"Beauty of character surpasses beauty of form."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The pursuit of beauty is a pursuit of truth in another form."
Catharine Macaulay
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"The beautiful unites with the good in a real, inner union."
Johann Goethe
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"The beauty of life is in the resistance against what would diminish it."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Beauty is the evidence that the world is not indifferent to our existence."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The beauty of a theorem lies in the inevitability of its rational conclusions."
Christian Wolff
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"All genuine beauty reflects an underlying rational order and harmony."
Christian Wolff
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"Beauty in nature reflects the divine order of creation."
Hugo Grotius
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"The pursuit of beauty elevates the human spirit."
Hugo Grotius
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"The beauty of humanity lies in its infinite variety and creative expression."
Johann Herder
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"To understand beauty is to understand something essential about human nature."
Johann Herder
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"The beauty of nature reflects the beauty of divine order."
Jean Bodin
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"Beauty is not merely what pleases the eye, but what satisfies the mind."
Jean Bodin
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"The richest beauty is in simplicity."
Friedrich Schiller
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"True beauty lives in the space between perfection and imperfection."
Friedrich Schiller
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"The pursuit of perfection often blinds us to present beauty."
Friedrich Schiller
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"Beauty emerges from the proper proportion of parts."
Christian Wolff
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"The beautiful is not something inherent to the object; it is created through contemplation."
Johann Goethe
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"The beautiful soul lives in complete harmony with all that lies around it."
Johann Goethe
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"The eye that follows harmony is alone beautiful."
Johann Goethe