Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
All beauty is truth, and all truth is compassionate. Few know that; fewer still can express it.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
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.
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