Beauty Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating…

— Elif Safak

“But desire must also be cultivated; the beautiful does not always immediately commend itself to every taste; Christ's beauty, like that of Isaiah's suffering…

— David Bentley Hart

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire,…

— Socrates

“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed” toward the…

— Max Scheler

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

— Simone Weil

Beauty was made for attraction not for affection

— Lara Flores

“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the soul towards…

— Roger Scruton

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win;…

— Anonymous

“There can be no love unless there is faith which means a feeling or vision of the ideal's beauty and this ultimately depends upon…

— Dr Muhammad Rafiuddin

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

— Octavio Paz

“In the woodblock prints of the Genroku period one often finds the features of a pair of lovers to be surprisingly similar, with little…

— Yukio Mishima

“I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love…

— Robert Francis