Most sets of values would give rise to universes that although they might be very beautiful would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

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.

It is cruel you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter but it doesn't hurt.