Outer Form Quotes

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

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won't matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.