Quotes with beauty-truths

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  • Jami In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • William Penn In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Ronald Laing In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Douglas Jerold It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
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  • Leo Tolstoy It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Alfred Jarry It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Benjamin Britten It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • George Eliot It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John F. Kennedy It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jean Rostand It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Vita Sackville-West It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aldous Huxley It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Just as those who do not love Plato more than truth cannot pass beyond the threshold of Academe, so those who do not love beauty more than truth never know the inmost shrine of art.
    The Decay of Lying (1889)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Let the beauty we love be what we do.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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