Beauty Plato Quotes

#1. [O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Frederick Charles Copleston

#2. Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Nancy Etcoff

#3. Beauty, like an animal, doesn't always behave.

Eva Brann

#4. If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck, the closest-to-sublime simulacra of those qualities that he or she can.

Steven Pressfield

#5. The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.

Elaine Scarry

#6. The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

John Desmond Bernal