Quotes About Philosophy

Le suicide n'est qu'une solution individuelle; pas socialiste par conséquent.

It is a serious matter to destroy a man's faith without replacing it.

No hacen falta muchas razones para mostrar que la vida buena tiene más valor que la buena vida

Reescribir la historia de la ética es repensarla desde el presente, a la luz de los problemas y de las circunstancias específicas que hoy nos agobian.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.