Beauty Quotes

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Essayist, Critic, Activist

“Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.”

Women Beauty Citizens

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Rollo May

Psychologist, Author

“Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.”

Giving Peace Beauty

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.”

Faces Beauty

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H. G. Wells

Writer

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

Heart Beauty

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Mahatma Gandhi

Political Leader

“True beauty consists of purity of heart.”

Heart Beauty True Beauty

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George Eliot

Novelist, Poet, Journalist

“The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.”

Beauty Eggs

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Maya Angelou

Poet, Memoirist

“Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”

Girl Opportunity

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D. H. Lawrence

Novelist, Poet

“Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”

Life Sex Beauty

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Alfred North Whitehead

Philosopher, Mathematician

“I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.”

Art Peace Beauty

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.”

Children Love Is Beauty

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Rumi

Poet, Philosopher

“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.”

Life Beauty Shadow

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.”

Men Beautiful Beauty

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