Beautiful Quote by Thucydides

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

— Thorstein Veblen

“While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much…

— Alain de Botton

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend…

— Justin Menkes

“Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.”

— Epictetus

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

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 gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

— Cullen Hightower

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

— Samuel Richardson

The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching…

— Thomas Dubay

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

— Leo Tolstoy