Beauty Quote by Socrates

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

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

— Annie Dillard

I don't have to go very far to see the power of beauty. Being desired, feeling desired is a very seductive aspect of our…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

— David Hume

Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.

— Alvar Aalto

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Beauty is an influence based off of judgment.”

— Alyssa Keller

“In the course of aesthetic experience, the perceiver may be overwhelmed by this 'mere object', overcome with emotion, altered to the very roots of…

— Wendy Steiner

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

— Octavio Paz