“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) Latvian-American poet, philosopher
Self and World (1957)
“Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?”
— Isaac Newton, book Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti,<br>S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede,<br>Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte; <br class="br">from sonnet "Veggio nel tuo bel viso, Signor mio" <br class="br">Translated by Luciano Rebay, Invitation to Italian Poetry http://books.google.com/books?id=zAnjAbsgY0gC&pg=PA77 (1969), p. 77 <br class="br">Variant translations: <br class="br">To those who are wise, nothing more resembles that merciful spring whence all derive than every beauty to be found here; <br class="br">Translated by Christopher Ryan, The poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction http://books.google.com/books?id=Iot1KpxQJpsC&pg=PA103 (1988), p. 103 <br class="br">Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.”
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
As rendered by T. Byrom (1993), Shambhala Publications. <br class="br">There is no quote from the Pali Canon that matches up with any of these. The closest quote to this is in the Majjhima Nikaya 19: <br class="br">"Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking & pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with sensuality, abandoning thinking imbued with renunciation, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with sensuality. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with ill will, abandoning thinking imbued with non-ill will, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with ill will. If a monk keeps pursuing thinking imbued with harmfulness, abandoning thinking imbued with harmlessness, his mind is bent by that thinking imbued with harmfulness." Sources: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.019.than.html <br class="br">Misattributed
“The world was made in order to result in a beautiful book.”
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) French Symbolist poet
Le monde est fait pour aboutir à un beau livre.
Remark made to Jules Huret, who published it in his Enquête sur l’évolution littéraire (1891); as translated in Stéphane Mallarmé (1969) by Frederic Chase St. Aubyn, p. 23.
Observations
“We see in order to move; we move in order to see.”
William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre
Anaximander book On Nature
On Nature, as quoted by Friedrich Ueberweg, History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1885) Vol. 1, p. 35. https://books.google.com/books?id=BW5YAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA35
Dean Koontz (1945) American author
Source: A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog