Beauty Quote by Plato

“A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into…

— J. Budziszewski

“The source of beauty in a man, It is humbleness and grace; Equality is the pearl of a king, Justice his scepter; Salvation is…

— Stephan Attia

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

— Plato

A man needs no arguments to make him discern and approve what is beautiful: it strikes at first sight, and attracts without a reason.…

— George Berkeley

“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself…

— Augustine of Hippo

“When we see things from a different perspective, they either transform into fair features or slip under the cloak of the collective unconscious… overruled…

— Kayla Severson

“For many men value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right. Everyone’s prepared to sigh over some suffering man, though no sorrow really…

— Aeschylus

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.”

— William Shakespeare

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What…

— David Hume

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

— Plato

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson