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  • Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.

    Beauty   Lying   Reality  
    R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”
  • In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama.

    Men   Understanding   Tea  
    "The Book of Tea". Book by Okakura Kakuzo, 1906.
  • My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

    Skills   Two   Painting  
    Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.
  • Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

    Real   Reading   Thinking  
  • Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

    Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.84, Routledge
  • Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

  • Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

  • Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

    George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”
  • In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

  • The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

    Beauty   Girly   Children  
    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press
  • My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

    "Connie Chung Tonight", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2002.
  • I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

    Long   Maps   Married  
  • I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would. Scientists function in the same way. I see all these as creative activities, as all part of the process of discovery. Perhaps that's one of the characteristics of what I call the evolvers, any subset of the population who keep things moving in a positive, creative, constructive way, revealing the truth and beauty that exists in life and in nature.

    Academy of Achievement interview, May 16, 1991.
  • No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it--to remain children of light.

    Children   Light   Giving  
    Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.78, Ardent Media
  • When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)
  • Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

    Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”
  • An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

  • Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

    "Ode on a Grecian Urn" l. 46 (1820)
  • Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

    "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.
  • My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.

    Jobs   Writing   People  
  • The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  • He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.

    Age   Vices   Novelty  
  • Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  • Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

    Art   Our World   Today  
  • The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

    Writing   Vision   Peers  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.341, Princeton University Press
  • Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

  • All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

    Library   Needs   Life Is  
  • Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

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