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Beauty Quotes by Plato

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Plato writes that true beauty is not just what we see but a reality that lifts the soul, giving it wings. He says the simplest, most graceful actions achieve the greatest results with little effort. He also notes that moral beauty and outward form together create the fairest spectacle.

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God ever geometrizes.

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Beauty is a natural superiority.

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The god is the beautiful.

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Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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The good is the beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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“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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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.

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

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