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