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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

— Jane Seymour

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

— Nawal El Saadawi

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

— John O'Donohue

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

— Edward Gibbon

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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.

— George Bancroft

✗Opposing Perspectives

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

— Tom Stoppard