Beauty quotes
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"Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it."
"Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously."
"True beauty consists of purity of heart."
"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness."
"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
"The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition."
"I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace."
"In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul."
"What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe."
"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."
"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting"
"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
"...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists."
"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!"
"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."
"Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose."
"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law."
