Beauty Quotes

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

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"The beautiful is the Absolute appearing to sense and imagination."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Beauty reconciles freedom and necessity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Ugliness is the failure of form to express content."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The eyes are the windows of the soul"
Berkeley, George
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"Modesty is the soft light that reveals the beauty of the soul"
Berkeley, George
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"The human heart is the most beautiful work of nature"
Berkeley, George
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"The love of beauty is an essential part of being human"
Berkeley, George
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"The highest form of beauty is truth"
Berkeley, George
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"The capacity to appreciate beauty distinguishes the civilized person from the merely comfortable one."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Beauty is that which makes the finite appear infinite."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"For the beautiful there is not much that needs to be said."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Beauty is not a matter of taste; it is a matter of judgment."
Kant, Immanuel
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"All aesthetic judgments are subjective universals."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The beautiful is that which is universally liked without a concept."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The sublime is that which is great beyond all comparison."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The beautiful is the sensuous manifestation of the idea."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Beauty is an expression of the spiritual in sensuous form."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Beauty is not a quality of objects, but a response of the perceiving mind."
Berkeley, George
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."
Hume, David
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"Wisdom is the best beauty."
Hume, David
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"Beauty is no quality in things themselves but exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."
Hume, David
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"Beauty is the appearance of the Idea."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Beauty is the manifestation of the Absolute in the sensible world."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The beautiful is the appearance of the rational in the sensible."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The beautiful is that which pleases universally without a concept."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The contemplation of beauty is a pathway to understanding truth."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The beauty of a moral act lies in its accordance with universal law."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The aesthetics of appearance: to look good is the best revenge."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"To say that it is wrong to feel the inexpressibly beautiful is to say that it is wrong to be a human being."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"Beauty always presupposes a standard."
Kierkegaard, Søren