Beauty Quotes - Page 31

• It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

  Epictetus

  Fitness, Philosophical, Heart

  "Society-89: The Essentials". Book by Jack Minnelpin (p. 28), August 1, 2006.

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• It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Love You, Wisest

  Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude, Amy Mandelker (2010). “War and Peace”, p.1241, Oxford University Press

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• Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

  George Santayana

  Environment, Harmony, Divine

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, All Things

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

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• My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

  Pindar

  Splendor, Strive, Let Me

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

  Ovid

  Wine, Dark, Judgement

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• A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Depressing, Years

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Nature, Flower

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Perception, Mind, Doe

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Firsts, Goodness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.68, A&C Black

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• Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Moments, Manifestation

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• It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Beautiful, Happiness And Love, Peace Love

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• The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love Is, Men, And Love

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• If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

  Michael Atiyah

  Beautiful, Art, Details

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• At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

  Mos Def

  Art, Mathematics, Music Is

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• It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Art, Orbit, Mathematics

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• The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when the building is finished, the completed structure leads by simple arguments to an unexpected conclusion. Every Besicovitch proof is a work of art, as carefully constructed as a Bach fugue.

  Freeman Dyson

  Art, Simple, Style

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• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Brother, Book

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• If you don't read poetry how the hell can you solve equations?

  Harvey Jackins

  Art, Hell, Aesthetic

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• A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

  Morris Kline

  Art, Proof, Form

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.546, Oxford University Press

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• But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

  Henri Poincare

  Beautiful, Art, Harmony

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• ...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Communication, Sometimes

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Art, Giving

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• For though, in nature, depth and height
  Are equally held infinite:
  In poetry, the height we know;
  'Tis only infinite below.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Depth, Height

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.654

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• How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Stars, Real

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

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