Quotes About Beauty

A man who has never enjoyed beautiful things in the company of a woman whom he loved has not experienced to the full the magic power of which such things are capable.

The way of man has no wisdom, but that of God has…. Man is called a baby by God, even as a child by a man…. The wisest man is an ape compared to God, just as the most beautiful ape is ugly compared to man.

But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations

A tutto ciò vanno aggiunte, in quanto contribuiscono alla felicitá dell'uomo di scienza, la bellezza delle più splendide conquiste, e la coscienza di un'utilità inestimabile per la razza umana. Una vita dedicata alla scienza è dunque una vita felice, e la sua felicità deriva dalle migliori possibilitá che si aprono dinnanzi agli abitanti di questo inquieto e impressionante pianeta

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

brazier over which some passing Deity will, for a casual aeon or so, warm his omnipotent hands. But until then, one can stand safely on its edge, watching the lake of pink and scarlet wings, so far below — the lake that seems to have stolen for the moment, at least, all the mountain's fire.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.

She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn't what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

But lately,' she said, wiggling her bare toes, 'I find all men to be very much like wearing high-heeled shoes -- I love how pretty they make me feel, but by the end of the night I can't wait to get rid of them.

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mommy, God's really showing off today!

O, Lord, You have made everything beautiful in Your time. You have also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet we cannot fathom what You have done from beginning to end. (Eccles. 3:11)

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him the beauty of the Law.

Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.

To a human race insatiably attracted to attractiveness, God offered a Savior with "no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). We keep looking for a beautiful way to a beautiful life, when as God would have it, the only way to find it is through an unbeautiful cross.

How beautiful you are, my darling. How very beautiful! Behind your veil, your eyes are like doves. Song of Songs 4:1

It is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, gazing on the beauty of the Lord. Psalm 27:4

Everything waits and moves. Our hearts, beating. The stars, wheeling over the spruce trees.

I love it! You know, when I tour college campuses, I always find that the prettiest girls in the room are the ones in the College Republicans.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.