Truth And Beauty Quotes - Page 2

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Edgar Lee Masters

Soul, Atheism, Armor

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My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

James Howard Kunstler

Skills, Two, Painting

Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

R. D. Laing

Beauty, Lying, Reality

R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

George Henry Lewes

Taste, Opinion, Human Nature

George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

Children, Spheres, Study

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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.

Dean Koontz

Glimpse, Ordinary, Littles

Dean Koontz (2009). “A Big Little Life”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth.

David R. Brower

Art, Passion, Winning

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An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Jaron Lanier

Struggle, Artist, Deception

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Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

Robert Falconer

Stars, Truth, Knowledge

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Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

Kris Kristofferson

Song, Heart, Eye

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Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

Christopher Morley

Philosophy, Rain, People

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My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.

Grace Paley

Jobs, Writing, People

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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

William Penn

Rhetoric, Ill, Turns

Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

Tony Bennett

Goal, Creative, Persons

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Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

Danica McKellar

Mean, Math, Science

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Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Adrian Desmond

Real, Reading, Thinking

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Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Leslie Jamison

Age, Answers, Might

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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.

Theodore Parker

Book, Thinking, Make You Think

"The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man".

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The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Vision, Peers

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.341, Princeton University Press

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My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Amiri Baraka

Responsibility

"Connie Chung Tonight", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2002.

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The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

Beauty, Truth, Learning

Henry Fairfield Osborn (1900). “Collected papers”

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In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

Okakura Kakuzo

Men, Understanding, Tea

"The Book of Tea". Book by Okakura Kakuzo, 1906.

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Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?

Dana Gioia

Punishment, Catholic, Dumb

"The Catholic Writer Today". www.firstthings.com. December 2013.

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In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Susan Neiman

Plato, Effort, Enlightenment

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