Quotes with beauty-truths

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  • Alexander Herzen What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Joseph Brodsky What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.
    The Remains of the Day (2009) 23
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • John Keats What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Phyllis Diller Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Aldous Huxley What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernard Berenson When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Byron Howard When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Agnes Martin When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Jacques Prevert When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
    Jacques Prevert
    French poet and prose st (1900 - 1977)
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  • Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alice Walker Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Aldous Huxley Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Beeban Kidron Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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