Beauty Quote by Ted Chiang

“When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.”

— Douglas Wilson

“The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul”

— Marina G. Roussou

“We want absolutely all bodies to be celebrated and idolised, represented and glorified.”

— Megan Jayne Crabbe

“Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our spiritual life. ”

— Kenneth A. Myers

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is…

— George Sarton

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should…

— Oscar Wilde

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

“because Christian artists substituted spiritual strength for Greek surface beauty.”

— Max I. Dimont

“It was to Greece that the Romans first owed their knowledge of healing, and of art and science generally, but at no time did…

— James Elliott

'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its…

— Socrates