Beauty Quotes by Plato

God ever geometrizes.

— Plato

Beauty is a natural superiority.

— Plato

The god is the beautiful.

— Plato

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

— Plato

The good is the beautiful.

— Plato

It is beautiful to wish to add another's light to your own.

— Plato

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

— Plato

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

— Plato

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

— Plato

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

— Plato

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

— Plato

The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings.

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“Beauty is the splendor of truth. (Die Schönheit ist der Glanz der Wahrheit)”

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

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“And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en…

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“Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.”

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He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a…

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of…

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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

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The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

— Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly…

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For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts;…

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“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for…

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It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty,…

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When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest…

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Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not…

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“There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with…

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“Now in the earthly likenesses of justice and temperance and all other prized possessions of the soul there dwells no luster; nay,…

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“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it…

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“The lesser mysteries of love For he who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful form;…

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And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties…

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“if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great…

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“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for…

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of…

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“he who would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many, and learn the connexion of them;…

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The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

— Plato

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

— Plato