#2,832

More so than the immorality of the contemporary world, it is its growing ugliness that moves one to dream of a cloister.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,776

Rather than from the disturbing spectacle of injustice triumphing, it is from the contrast between the earthly fragility of the beautiful and its immortal essence that the hope of another life is born.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,667

Until the end of the 18th century, what man added to nature increased its beauty.
Since then, what he adds destroys it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,544

Only goodness and beauty do not require limits.
Nothing is too beautiful or too good.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 409

#2,498

Only churchmen’s hands knew, for a period of a few centuries, how to beautify conduct and the soul.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 402

#2,450

Goodness and beauty are not mutually exclusive except where goodness serves as a pretext for envy and beauty for luxury.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,189

Nothing surpasses the beauty of loyal love, of the love that is not loyalty with love, but the loyalty of love itself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#1,999

Cowed by the vehemence with which the artist reminds him of his famous follies, the critic walks with cautious steps, fearing that patent ugliness might end up being unusual beauty.
It is not in order to admire that one requires courage today; it is in order to censure.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

#1,877

The ugliness of the modern face is an ethical phenomenon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 307

#1,634

What the beauty of a poem signifies has no connection at all with what the poem signifies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 274

#1,552

Man does not admire anything sincerely except what is undeserved.
Talent, lineage, beauty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 259

#1,317

The laws of biology alone do not have fingers delicate enough to fashion the beauty of a face.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 227

#1,003

Wisdom comes down to never forgetting either the nothingness that man is, or the beauty that is at times born in his hands.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 180

#958

We should politely welcome into our souls all of the world’s beauty.
Without delivering our eternal heart up to that transient guest.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 173

#469

Aesthetics indicates to the artist in which region of the universe the beauty for which he is searching can be found, but it does not guarantee him that he will succeed in capturing it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 92

#267

It is enough for beauty to touch our tedium for our heart to be torn like silk between the hands of life.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 61

#214

Beauty, heroism, glory feed on man’s heart like silent flames.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 54

#168

The ugliness of an object is a prior condition of its industrial multiplication.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 48

#86

Beauty does not surprise us, but fills us till we overflow.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 36

#61

The momentary beauty of the instant is the only thing in the universe which accords with the deepest desire of our souls.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 33