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The pursuit of
beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of
truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation
to the ego.
-- Northrop Frye
1912-1991, Canadian Literary
Critic
There is
nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor,
Designer, Poet, Philosopher
There is
certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is
what makes its pursuit so interesting.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist
Beauty is an
outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to
whom it has been refused.
-- Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
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Beauty in not
in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
-- Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet,
Novelist
Beauty is
eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-- Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet,
Novelist
Beauty is
composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is
extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element
which might be, either by turns or all at once, period,
fashion, moral, passion.
-- Jean-Luc Godard
1930-, French Filmmaker,
Author
Beauty is a
manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would
have been hidden from us forever.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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