美というのは事物そのものに内在する質ではない。それは単に対象を観察する側の精神に存在するものであって、個々人の精神は異なった美を感受する。の英語

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

I suppose that we mean by beauty that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

It seemed to me that beauty was like the summit of a mountain peak; when you had reached it there was nothing to do but to come down again.

For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.

Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued.

The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us now worthless.

The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.

The emotion they gave me was exquisite, but I could not preserve it, nor could I indefinitely repeat it; the most beautiful things in the world finished by boring me.

More than ever do we need goals or leading ideas that will give purpose to whatever we are doing.

Science is a good thing, but it is not an end in itself; it is a means toward an end and that end is human betterment.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

a doctrine in art called expressionism whereby the artist, through his individual and intense subjectivity attempts to describe the life within things

One doesn't only live their life as an individual human, without realizing it, that person lives their life within their era and with the people within that era.

The scientist has a love of facts, even isolated facts, similar to the poet's love of words.

It must also be said that spotting what is important in current science is a matter of judgement, one cannot know that one is right.

The price of a work of art, even if it itself does not change, can increase depending on how the artist's identity is portrayed at exhibition.

Nothing gives an artist as much strength as the knowledge that there is at least one person who loves deeply what he has created.

a member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

The eyes themselves can become selective, ignoring part of what is there, and the brain sometimes insists on seeing things that don't exist at all.

We experience and understand the world through signals that are received by the senses and interpreted by the brain - and both stages are subject to distortion.

It is not too much to say that a man's interests are a sure guide to the real man.

of or relating to the religious belief that God can be known to humans positively or affirmatively

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

In the greatest of all works of art everything had been realized, I could give nothing, and my restless mind tired of passive contemplation.

Happy people are those who remember only the good things from the past, while unhappy people are those who remember only the opposite.

It is said that scholarship is the pursuit of truth. To the scholar, truth is everything. It is impossible to overemphasize its importance.