"'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact."
"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."
"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love."
"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."
"Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
"What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty."
"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."
"A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom."
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?"
"There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived."
"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman."
"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."
"There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it."
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me."
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
"Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while."
"To love beauty is to see light."
"We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers."
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
"What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things."
"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
