Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I tell people, and it’s the truth, I could sit in my garage for a week and it won’t make me a car. And you can sit in church till your bottom is flat and that won’t make you a servant of Christ.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

It’s not a science when you are judging art, but we’d be remiss to say you can’t look at something and say, ‚This is more well done than that.‘

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.