Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
Tears fell from my eyes--yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.
Marguerite Blessington
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo
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.
Northrop Frye
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson