Capture Quote by Keith Devlin

“It was love, she thought, pretending to move her canvas, distilled and filtered; love that never attempted to clutch its object; but, like the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Almost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming ever more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And…

— Anonymous

Behind all forms of beauty there is an infinite unity, and this unity, this intrinsic and eternal beauty, the artist is seeking to discern…

— Lyman Abbott

“Carnal love in all its forms, from the highest — true marriage or platonic love — to the most base, down to debauchery, has…

— Simone Weil

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

— Plato

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to…

— Bertrand Russell

Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass…

— Herman Melville

“Bertrand Russell once described mathematical beauty in the following words: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold…

— Andrew Thomas

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.

— Edmund Spenser

“For essential beauty is infinite, and, as the soul of Nature needs an endless succession of varied forms to embody her loveliness, countless faces…

— George MacDonald

“Each succeeding Sphere holds new, vaster love and truth within it. Each succeeding Sphere is larger and larger, both in spaciousness and in love…

— Padma Aon Prakasha