“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.”
Phaedo
Plato, Phaedo
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classical Greek Athenian philosopher -470–-399 BCRelated quotes
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003).
2000s
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté :
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.
Satire 8, l. 209
Satires (1716)
“Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
"The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: The Golden Echo, line 19
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.”
Elena Ferrante book The Story of a New Name
Source: The Story of a New Name
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
As quoted in New York World Telegram & Sun (21 August 1960); also in Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion (2004) by Joseph Abboud, p. 79
