Quotes about Beauty

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Beauty - Mindset - State

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Entertainer, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Beauty - Creativity - Ecstasy - Greatness - Religion - Transport - Wonder

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Beauty - Giving - Mastering - Monk - Realization - Silence

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Rajneesh

Guru

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Beauty - Creativity - Dance - Enough - Wants

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Friedrich Schlegel

Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Philologist, Indologist

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Attraction - Beauty

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art - Beauty - Design - Limits

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Adyashanti

Spiritual Teacher, Author

What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected.

Beauty - Expectation - Oneself

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Beauty - Character - Excellence - Giving - Mindset - Production

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Appearance - Beauty - Fashion - Inspiration - Knowledge - Style

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Friedrich Schiller

Philosopher, Dramatist, Poet

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Beauty - Joy - Suffering

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Socrates

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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Homer

Poet

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Beauty - Youth

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Beauty - Spiritual - Universe

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Rajneesh

Guru

The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

Beauty - Giving - Insight - Phenomena - Whole - World

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Actor, Writer, Author

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Beauty is a gift of God.

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Robert Boyle

Politician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due con-templation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal beauty.

Beauty - Hurting - Mortality - Objectification - Passion

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A. A. Milne

Author

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Beauty - Creativity - Life - Nature

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Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician, Philosopher

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Beauty - Discovery - Production - Universe

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