If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

When the soul looks out of its body it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind in order to move to a higher place.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace and nature was a place in which there was beauty in which there was order.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly well-ordered or confused.

I believe that history has shape order and meaning that exceptional men as much as economic forces produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty nobility and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

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.