Philosophy Quotes

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

- Francis Bacon

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."

- Juvenal

"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."

- Albert Camus

"It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so."

- Hosea Ballou

"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."

- Albrecht Durer

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

- John Keats

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

"Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare/And beauty draws us with a single hair."

- Alexander Pope

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."

- Oscar Wilde

"Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"Beauty without expression is boring."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no beauty without some strangeness."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows."

- Walt Disney

"It’s not the days in your life, but the life in your days that count."

- Brian White

"In advocating any measure, we must consider not only its justice but its practicability."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war."

- Al McGuire

"How high does a sycamore grow? If you cut it down, then you'll never know."

- Pocahontas

"The ancestor of every action is… thought."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."

- Robert Green Ingersoll

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."

- Don Marquis

"On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it."

- Jules Renard

"Nature’s instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature."

- Henri Rousseau

"The exquisite beauty of life is in its unpredictability."

"You are a chapter of beauty in humanity’s storybook."

"Beauty is the shadow of harmony."

"True beauty is eternal."

"Life is never easy: we have to make it easy, sometimes by ignoring something and sometimes by accepting something."