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