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Beauty |
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"The best and most
beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt
with the heart."
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Helen Keller
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| "Anything in any way
beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise
is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise." |
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Marcus Aurelius
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| "A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting."
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Abraham Maslow |
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"Beauty in things
exists in the mind which contemplates them."
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--
David Hume
(1711-1776), Scottish philosopher
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"The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts."
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-- Tom Robbins |
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| "There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the
soul than beauty." |
| -- Joseph Addison (1672-1719),
English essayist, poet, statesman |
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| "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." |
| -- Confucius (c. 551-479? BC),
Chinese sage |
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| "The most beautiful thing we
can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art
and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead:
his eyes are closed." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The
Eternal." |
| -- Alighieri Dante (1265-1321),
Italian poet |
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| “Practice
random beauty and senseless acts of love.” |
| -- Anonymous |
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| "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." |
| -- John Donne (1572-1631),
English metaphysical poet |
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| "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in
which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| “Beauty
as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it
means can never be said.” |
| -- George Santayana (1863-1952) |
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| "One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty
another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Appreciate beauty... it is
fleeting. Invest in character... it is lasting." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| "We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Think of all the beauty still left around you
and be happy." |
| -- Anne Frank (1929-45), German
Jewish refugee, diarist |
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| "When I'm
working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong." |
| -- Richard Buckminster Fuller
(1895-1983), American architect, inventor |
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| "The
contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were
created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of
which it never tires." |
| -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830),
British essayist noted for literary criticism |
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| "If there is light in the
soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the
person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in
the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in
the nation, There will be peace in the world." |
| -- Chinese Proverb |
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| "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." |
| -- Margaret Wolfe Hungerford |
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| "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth." |
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-- John Keats (1795-1821),
British poet considered among the greatest in English |
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“There's a difference between
beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A
charming woman is one who notices me.” |
| -- John Erskine |
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| "The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread." |
| -- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
(1885-1930), British writer |
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| “What
a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is
goodness.” |
| -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian
novelist |
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“The most beautiful things are
those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
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| -- Andre Gide |
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| “There
is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the
proportion.” |
| -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) |
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| "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams." |
| -- (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884-1962), American diplomat, writer, US First Lady |
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| “The
lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than
any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in
disguise.” |
| -- George Santayana (1863-1952) |
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| "A heart in love with beauty
never grows old." |
| -- Turkish Proverb |
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| “Never
regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to
know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit
for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to
which your later work belongs.” |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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| "The beauty of the world has
two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart
asunder." |
| -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941),
British writer |
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| “Beauty
is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no
explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or
springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we
call the moon.” |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) |
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| "Of life's two chief prizes,
beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second
in a laborer's hand." |
| -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931),
Lebanese-born American mystic poet |
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| "In every man's heart there is
a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty." |
| -- Christopher Darlington Morley
(1890-1957), American writer |
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| "There is divine beauty in
learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means
to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others
have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I
have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers
and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their
experiences, their quests. And so are you." |
| -- Elie(zer) Wiesel (b. 1928),
Romanian-born writer |
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| "The most beautiful and most
profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.
It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good
as dead. To know that which is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty
which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive
forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true
religiousness." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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