Talk:Beauty
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[edit]That was me editing it anonymously. I'm sorry, I forgot to log in. I was writing a report on this, and there were a number of quotes I've run across that I thought I'd post here. Since I'm writing a scholarly work on this subjec, I think that if I write something really brilliant I might even quote myself. --Ollie Garkey 20:31, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism?
[edit]Is that Frank Zappa quote for real or is it a result of Vandalism? --JD
- It certainly seems suspicious. I'm not going to remove it though, becuse I don't have an account here. —Springeragh (Wikipedia IP talk) 20:09, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit]- Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
- Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Sight is a big part of our existence, but it shouldn't make us blind to other things.
- Moira Doolan on beauty and aesthetics.
- To know that what 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 most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
- Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.
- Amos Lee
- Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but in the hand of an artist
- Mary Duvenhage
- Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.
- Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914).
- Beauty is in the imagination of the beholder.
- David Newell
- Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
- Beauty is it's own excuse for being.
- Margaret Skinner's matchbox.
- I am sure that you heard it said that appearance does not matter so much and that it only matters what is on the inside. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on the inside, would never have to comb their hair or take a bath and then the whole world would smell worse than it already does.
- The gift which you possess ... is not an art, but, as I was just saying, an inspiration; there is a divinity moving you... For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed...
- If truth is beauty how come nobody has their hair done in a library?
- "Smash, smash the old laws" habitual beauty becomes narcotic eventually; it can be rediscovered, but only dialectically, by contrast, by the creation of new, brutally shocking beauty, beauty that seems barbarism at first. And the creation of such new beauty is the first step for anyone who would a god, and not a slave of dead gods. It is in the war between great seeking and great boredom that new beauty is born.
- Beauty is only skin deep.
- Proverb. Possible origin
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~ Proverb
- She who is born a beauty is born betrothed.
- Italian proverb
- When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
- Navajo song
- Beauty always comes with dark thoughts. ~ Nightwish ~ "Wish I Had An Angel".
- Beauty is a curse on the world. It keeps us from seeing who the real monsters are. ~ The Carver, Nip/Tuck
- "Beauty is in the eye of the BEERHOLDER"- WC Fields or Rodney Dangerfield ?
- Beauty is found within.
- "Belle" in Beauty and The Beast.
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[edit]- Too often, though, the beauty that is thrust upon us is illusory and deceitful, superficial and blinding, leaving the onlooker dazed; instead of bringing him out of himself and opening him up to horizons of true freedom as it draws him aloft, it imprisons him within himself and further enslaves him, depriving him of hope and joy. It is a seductive but hypocritical beauty that rekindles desire, the will to power, to possess, and to dominate others, it is a beauty which soon turns into its opposite, taking on the guise of indecency, transgression or gratuitous provocation. Authentic beauty, however, unlocks the yearning of the human heart, the profound desire to know, to love, to go towards the Other, to reach for the Beyond.
- Benedict XVI, Meeting with artists of 21 November 2009.
- the true / power of beauty: // not to attract but to repulse / those who would withhold / themselves from it
- Paisley Rekdal, "Whistlejacket" (2024)
- Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind
The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.- Robert Nathan, "Beauty Is Ever to the Lonely Mind"
- πᾶν τὸ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς σαρκὸς καὶ ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ ἡ ἀλαζονία τοῦ βίου, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τοῦ πατρός, ἀλλὰ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου ἐστίν.
- For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
- John the Evangelist, First Epistle of John 2:16 NIV -- Unclear what this has to do with beauty. Would work in Worldliness
- For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
- The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
- Yves Saint-Laurent, quoted in Brandon Gaille, "List of 38 Famous Fashion Quotes and Sayings". BrandonGaille.com (July 23, 2013). Retrieved November 15, 2013
- These experiences are not 'religious' in the ordinary sense. They are natural, and can be studied naturally. They are not 'ineffable' in the sense the sense of incommunicable by language. Maslow also came to believe that they are far commoner than one might expect, that many people tend to suppress them, to ignore them, and certain people seem actually afraid of them, as if they were somehow feminine, illogical, dangerous. 'One sees such attitudes more often in engineers, in mathematicians, in analytic philosophers, in book keepers and accountants, and generally in obsessional people'. The peak experience tends to be a kind of bubbling-over of delight, a moment of pure happiness. 'For instance, a young mother scurrying around her kitchen and getting breakfast for her husband and young children. The sun was streaming in, the children clean and nicely dressed, were chattering as they ate. The husband was casually playing with the children: but as she looked at them she was suddenly so overwhelmed with their beauty and her great love for them, and her feeling of good fortune, that she went into a peak experience . . .
- Colin Wilson, New Pathways in Psychology (1972), p. 17
- (Citing the Metaphysics of Aristotle) ‘The good and the beautiful are different because the former is always in praxis, while the latter is also in immovable things.’ [...] For Aristotle, a true good must be achievable through practice. Beauty, on the other hand, is not always achievable; there is one aspect of beauty that is achievable, which is achievable through practice and is therefore an action, but there is clearly another aspect of beauty that is not achievable and which places it in the realm of immutable realities, i.e. realities that do not depend on human action. [...] “Beauty is always order, symmetry and determinacy”. [...] These characteristics – according to Aristotle – also belong to immobile realities such as mathematical objects. Mathematical objects are beautiful because they are orderly, symmetrical and determinate. Think of geometric figures, think of geometric theorems. Mathematicians themselves say today that a theorem, a proof, can be beautiful, can be elegant. And this confirms Aristotle's idea of beauty as belonging to immutable realities. Mathematical objects are not practicable, they cannot be realised through action; they are there, they must be described, they must be proven, but they are not the product of our action, so they are immutable realities, but that is why they are beautiful. [...] For Aristotle, there are many goods: for example, health is a good, strength is a good, wealth is a good. Therefore, many human actions have these goods as their end. [...] However, some actions are good because they procure goods, but they are not beautiful actions, there is no reason to consider them beautiful.
- Enrico Berti, La natura del bello nel pensiero di Aristotele, youtube.com, 29 August 2017 (10:18'-13:10') Ficaia (talk) 19:52, 4 October 2025 (UTC)