Moral Beauty Quotes

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Beauty is the flower of virtue.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

It's high time the film industry stopped treating fair skin as a parameter of beauty. You could be the fairest of them all, but if you have a wicked soul, you aren't beautiful at all. So, skin colour doesn't define a person's beauty.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.

The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.