Friedrich Schiller Quotes

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it. In other words, although the beautiful exists for the gratification of an observer, it is independent of him. In this sense music, too, has no aim (object), and the mere fact that this particular art is so closely bound up with our feelings by no means justifies the assumption that its aesthetic principles depend on this union.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful.

Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.

As the eye is the best composer, so light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make beautiful; and the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.

Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.

Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.