#beauty

I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#reason #beauty

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#beauty

The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths. ↗

— Julie Lessman

#descriptive-prose #beauty

A single act of carelessness leads to the eternal loss of beauty ↗

— Forbidden City Sign Writer

#beauty

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then. ↗

— Stephen King

#time #beauty

There was no question about it- the girl in the photograph was staggeringly beautiful. She was Miss Canal Zone, a runner-up in the Miss Universe Contest -- and in fact far more beautiful than the winner of the contests. Her beauty had frightened the judges. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#beauty

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers. ↗

— Alan Hollinghurst

#beauty

Time has a way of stripping everything that is apparent about a thing away, leaving the Perception of a thing unrecognizable. But in the process, Time bares the true essence and beauty of the thing. ↗

— Vivian Marie Feggans

#women-writers #beauty

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.” (VII) ↗

— Aristotle

#perspicuity #beauty

I love you, my sweet, seek not why an unpassioned beauty is life if we part Absinthe-shut eyes shan't weave lies but translate the prose of my heart ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#beauty