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“It was a very proper answer to him who asked why any map should be delighted with beauty, that it was a question that none but a blind man could ask; since any beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.”

Men Should Beautiful Asks Answers Beauty Objects Sight Blind Maps Delighted Blind Man Beautiful Objects

Author:Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”

Source: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

“Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.”

Way Made Beautiful Asks Beauty Praise

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.”

Littles Two Eye Asks Answers Beauty Mouths Female Rounds Brown Flats Yellow Coming Out Belly Toads

Author:Voltaire

“This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.”

Men Reason Asks Beauty Sun Creation Moon Worship God's Creation

Author:Cat Stevens

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”

Thinking Firsts Reason Reality Seems Beautiful Asks Beauty No Reason

Author:John Cage

“Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?”

Asks Beauty Adventure Flying Flight Aviation Beauty Of Life Great Aviation Aviator Earth And Sky

Book:The Spirit of St. Louis

Source: The Spirit of St. Louis

“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”

Knows Real Asks House Poor Views Beauty Higher Percent Towns Sells Agents Parks Flats Estates Surroundings Identical Estate Agents

Author:Nan Fairbrother

“I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.”

Mind Heart Action Earth Joy Mother Asks Peace Voice Beauty Divine Our Actions Togetherness Mother Earth

Author:Babatunde Olatunji