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

“Along with romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of thought. Both originated in envy,…

— Toni Morrison

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

— Mark Twain

“The emotion of love is an affective emotion, directly reacting to goodness, rather than an aggressive one, reacting to challenge. Not only our so-called…

— Thomas Aquinas

It is the combination of thought and love which forms the irresistible force of the law of attraction.

— Anonymous

“What causes love, since it is a passion, is its object; and since it is a sort of affinity or agreement with the object,…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens of a…

— Esther Perel

“To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways..." (The Rape Of The Swan) Footnote : A form of self-edification,…

— The Poet Archibald MacLeish

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

— Aristophanes

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

— Norm MacDonald

Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to…

— Edward Gibbon

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

— Mignon McLaughlin