Quotes About Philosophy

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative chessmaster.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Art is apotheosis; Often, the complaint of beauty.

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so.

until only infinity remained of beauty

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Beauty alters the grain of reality.

Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.