Beauty Quotes

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

18919 quotes

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"Beauty fades but stupidity is forever."
Aristophanes
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"Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty."
Aristophanes
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"Leave Crete and come here to me, to your holy temple where the lovely grove of apple trees circles an altar of frankincense."
Sappho
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"What is lovely never dies, Bitterness, but fades into the perfume called memory."
Sappho
S
"The groom is coming, tall as Ares, towering over all. Beauty beyond measure."
Sappho
S
"Blessed are those who hear the nightingale sing at dawn."
Sappho
S
"She dances like a young deer leaping through meadows at dawn."
Sappho
S
"You taught me that beauty is a curse as often as it is a blessing."
Sappho
S
"She wore flowers in her hair like stars fallen to earth."
Sappho
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"To see beauty in nature is to glimpse the divine order."
Anaxagoras
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"The beauty of the cosmos lies in the elegant simplicity of atomic arrangement."
Leucippus
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"The beauty of nature arises from the elegant harmony of infinite atomic arrangements."
Leucippus
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"The eternal dance of atoms in the void produces all the colors and forms we perceive."
Leucippus
L
"All beauty is arrangement; all ugliness is disorder—atoms care not which is which."
Leucippus
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"The best things are the most dangerous, for they are beautiful."
Euripides
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"Nature operates with such elegance that many fail to perceive its profound simplicity."
Anaximenes
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"The world's complexity conceals a sublime and elegant simplicity at its heart."
Anaximenes
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"The universe is a living proof that simplicity can generate infinite complexity."
Anaximenes
A
"The transformation of matter reveals the creative power hidden within substance itself."
Anaximenes
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"Beauty lies not in the form, but in the harmony of all parts."
Xenophanes
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"To be called beautiful by others means nothing; to feel beauty within is everything."
Xenophanes
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"Beauty of style and harmony and grace depend on simplicity."
Sophocles
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"Beauty arises when mind organizes chaos into harmony."
Anaxagoras
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"The lover sees beauty where the indifferent man sees only ordinary features."
Aristophanes
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"Beauty without virtue is merely a pleasant deception."
Aristophanes
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"A modest man is admired by all, but a boastful man is hated."
Euripides
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"Beauty fades, but a good name lasts forever."
Euripides
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"The smallest creature speaks of the boundless wisdom that created it."
Anaximander
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"Whoever cultivates the impressions of beauty will not find satisfaction in them."
Democritus
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"The beautiful is in nature, and in the nature of things."
Democritus