Best beauty & goodness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the Classical tradition, deriving from ancient Greece and Rome, beauty was perceived as the means by which the artist captured the viewer's eye in order to engage the viewer with truth and so inspire goodness.”

Mean Eye Artist Order Beauty Inspire Goodness Tradition Ancient Rome Viewers Greece Captured Ancient Greece Greece And Rome

Author:John Walford

“Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.”

Speak Language Beauty Goodness Finished

Book:Romola

Source: Romola

“It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.”

Real Jobs Artist Values Beauty Cases Goodness Aim Real Things Enchanted

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.”

Believe I Believe Beauty Goodness

Author:Baldassare Castiglione

“He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.”

Looks Beauty Goodness Fairs Look Up Good Will

Book:The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography

Source: The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography

“He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.”

Mind Heart Beautiful Sides Beauty Lovers Goodness Painter Lifts Bad Friend

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

Beauty Goodness Body Image

Author:Milan Kundera

“Goodness is beauty in the best estate.”

Beauty Goodness Ethics Estates

Author:Christopher Marlowe

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”

“A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.”

Men World Soul Suffering Poor Beauty Poverty Knowledge Greater Goodness Glory Men And Women Unawareness Pocketbooks

Author:Thomas Dreier

“Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.”

Persons Truth Spirit Spirituality Natural Beauty Goodness Atmosphere God's Presence Truth And Beauty

Book:The Science of Mind Collection

Source: The Science of Mind Collection

“Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.”

Way May Beautiful Beauty Virtue Divine Goodness Appreciation Generosity Innocence Traits Modesty Heroism Cultivating Candor

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“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.”

Beauty Dangerous Danger Ego Goodness Stronger Pursuit Temptation Nonsense

Book:The Northrop Frye Quote Book

Source: The Northrop Frye Quote Book

“Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.”

Firsts Truth Beauty Truth Is Goodness

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose of all Creation. In this flowers may be enjoyed simply and directly in themselves as showing forth God's goodness and beauty, or, more fully, as archetypes, signatures, symbols, and bearers of legends, mirroring the revealed articles of Christian faith - thereby serving as means for their teaching, recollection, contemplation and celebration.”

“It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?”

Giving Doe Names Beauty Wise Goodness Neighborhood

Book:The Analects of Confucius

Source: The Analects of Confucius

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”

Love Truth Beauty Truth Is Goodness Edges Goodness And Truth

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

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