Beauty

(674 votes)   Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(592 votes)   I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian

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(550 votes)   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing...

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(542 votes)   What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Father Andre

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(522 votes)   Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Christopher Morley
1890-1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet

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(522 votes)   There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(499 votes)   Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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(498 votes)   Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(486 votes)   Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(484 votes)   In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(480 votes)   Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(451 votes)   Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Mary Arnim
1866-1941, Australian-born British Novelist

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(427 votes)   Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(426 votes)   My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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(425 votes)   Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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