Beauty Quotes

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

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"The beautiful is that which is perceived through the senses with a confused but pleasurable perception."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Beauty is the perception of harmony and proportion in all things."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"The beautiful and the good are inseparable."
Descartes, René
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"Beauty is the harmony of proportions."
Descartes, René
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"Beauty lies not in appearance but in the purity of the heart."
Al-Ghazali
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"The essence of beauty lies in proportion and harmony."
Avicenna
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"Beauty is not in the object, but in the eye of the perceiver."
Locke, John
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"Beauty arises from the proportion and fitness of the parts to each other and to the whole."
Hume, David
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"Beauty is the harmony of proportion."
Averroes
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"Beauty reflects the order of the cosmos."
Averroes
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"The contemplation of beauty elevates the soul."
Maimonides
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"Beauty is truth seen with the heart."
Descartes, René
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"Beauty exists not in objects, but in the perception of the observer."
Avicenna
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"Beauty is not merely what the eye sees, but what the heart recognizes."
Al-Ghazali
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"True beauty transcends form and speaks directly to the spirit."
Al-Ghazali
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"In my deepest wound I saw your glory and it dazzled me."
Augustine of Hippo
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"In beauty we see the fingerprints of God."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Beauty is the splendor of truth."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Beauty strikes us as something absolute and divine."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Beauty is the harmony of parts in proportion and arrangement."
Averroes
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"Beauty captures something eternal that mere matter cannot contain."
Averroes
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"Beautiful objects pass away, but beautiful actions remain."
Cicero
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"Beauty in nature reflects the mathematical harmony that underlies all creation."
Avicenna
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"The beauty of a sunset is fleeting, but the memory of its beauty can last forever."
Avicenna
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"Beauty is the brightness that makes truth evident."
Thomas Aquinas
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"Competence without grace is torture."
Seneca
"The eternal are all things which have harmony and proportion."
Marcus Aurelius
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"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
Augustine of Hippo
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"The desire for beauty and the desire for truth are one. They are the desire for God."
Augustine of Hippo