Beauty Quotes

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

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"Beauty lies in the harmony of elements."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The aesthetic experience transcends the merely pleasant."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The aesthetic sense is cultivated through exposure to beauty."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Beauty is the expression of truth."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Beauty is found in harmony and order."
Comte, Auguste
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"Beauty consists in the perfect proportion of parts."
Comte, Auguste
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"True beauty is not in the object but in the observer."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Beauty is the manifestation of unity and harmony."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Beauty awakens the divine in the human soul."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Beauty fades, but wisdom grows eternal."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Beauty in nature teaches us the harmony we must create in society."
Comte, Auguste
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"Beauty perceived in art prepares the soul for moral beauty."
Comte, Auguste
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"Beauty is the harmony of form reflecting our highest aspirations."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Beauty dwells in the eye of the beholder and the heart of the artist."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Lord, give me the beauty to attract, enough money to command, and give those who desire me to forget to return to their homes."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Beauty cannot be grasped except by the soul."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Ideality is to have a kind of taste that elevates the human soul."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Beauty resides in recognizing order and harmony in both nature and human achievement."
Comte, Auguste
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"The beauty we perceive is a reflection of our own capacity to understand."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The beauty of nature lies not in its perfection, but in its authenticity."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Beauty is not merely something pleasant; it is a revelation of truth."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Beauty is the sensuous appearance of the Idea."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Every genius is refined in his nature; vulgarity is the sign of a low nature."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The beautiful exists only in struggle."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Beautiful women make us poets; bad poets make us beautiful women."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"One must have seen the misery of existence in order to know the beauty of life."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Beauty in art reflects the struggles of the common people."
Marx, Karl
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"Beauty is the expression of the nature of an object in a language suited to our perception."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The beauty of a thing is not in the thing itself but in the eye of the beholder."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Beauty is the only proof that the world is not governed by the laws of physics."
Kant, Immanuel