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