Beauty Quotes

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

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"Things that are beautiful without purpose are the most beautiful things of all."
Immanuel Kant
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"Beauty is the symbol of the morally good."
Immanuel Kant
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"The beauty, grace, and ease of the manners of the great are the objects of universal admiration."
Adam Smith
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"Beauty exists in the reconciliation of opposites within a unity."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Beauty is the sensuous manifestation of the ideal."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The beauty of freedom is that it belongs to all."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Beauty exists in the faces of free people."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"That which is striking and sublime in the works of nature and art catches the attention and delights the sense."
John Locke
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"Beauty is purposiveness without a purpose."
Immanuel Kant
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"Beauty is found in the harmony of form and purpose."
Immanuel Kant
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"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
David Hume
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"The contemplation of beauty elevates the soul and refines the sensibilities."
David Hume
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"The beauty of humanity shines brightest when we are free."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Beauty is not a property of external things, but rather a perception of the mind."
Baruch Spinoza
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"The beauty of liberty is that it belongs to all."
José de San Martín
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"Beauty exists in the hearts of the free."
José de San Martín
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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and delight without benefit."
John Locke
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"The sight of a plain man is better than the smell of a rose."
John Locke
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
David Hume
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"La belleza del alma es superior a la del cuerpo."
José de San Martín
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"Beauty is not a quality inherent in things; it is a response of the observer."
Baruch Spinoza
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"The imagination produces joy when it encounters beauty and sadness when it encounters deformity."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Every system of education which aims at forming the mind must have beauty as one of its principal objects."
Adam Smith
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
David Hume
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"The quest for beauty is a natural human impulse."
David Hume
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"We are more strongly attached to beauty than to deformity."
David Hume
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"The mind loves variety; variety is beautiful."
John Locke
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"Beauty exists wherever humans create with intention and care."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Beauty is found in the struggle for something meaningful."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Beauty lies in the strength of a people united for a common purpose."
José de San Martín