Theodore Parker Quotes

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

The world will be saved by beauty.

I don't understand beauty.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is.

The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.