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Beautiful Quotes by Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
- Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward…
- Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
- We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something…
- The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that…
- The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a…
- The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
- Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman