| 299 | What is fine is always difficult [Plato] |
| 249 | People who value beauty above virtue insult the soul by placing the body above it [Plato] |
| 155 | Beauty is the clearest and most lovely of the Forms [Plato] |
| 390 | If goodness involves moderation and proportion, then it seems to be found in beauty [Plato] |
| 172 | Love of ugliness is impossible [Plato] |
| 173 | Beauty and goodness are the same [Plato] |
| 4026 | Beauty is harmony with what is divine, and ugliness is lack of such harmony [Plato] |
| 52 | We choose things for their fineness, their advantage, or for pleasure [Aristotle] |
| 514 | Beauty is merely animal without intelligence [Democritus (attr)] |
| 18555 | The beautiful is that from which nothing can be subtracted and to which nothing can be added [Alberti] |
| 12925 | Beauty increases with familiarity [Leibniz] |
| 8110 | Leibniz identified beauty with intellectual perfection [Leibniz, by Gardner] |
| 19773 | Without love, what use is beauty? [Rousseau] |
| 22711 | The beautiful is not conceptualised as moral, but it symbolises or resembles goodness [Kant, by Murdoch] |
| 4025 | Kant saw beauty as a sort of disinterested pleasure, which has become separate from the good [Kant, by Taylor,C] |
| 20412 | Beauty is only judged in pure contemplation, and not with something else at stake [Kant] |
| 21488 | The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will [Schopenhauer] |
| 4182 | A principal pleasure of the beautiful is that it momentarily silences the will [Schopenhauer] |
| 20271 | Beauty in art is the imitation of happiness [Nietzsche] |
| 20433 | 'Beauty' can either mean sensuous charm, or the aesthetic approval of art (which may be ugly) [Fry] |
| 21233 | The beautiful is whatever it is intrinsically good to admire [Moore,GE] |
| 23922 | The word 'beauty' leads to confusion, because it denotes distinct emotions [Bell,C] |
| 5928 | Beauty is neither objective nor subjective, but a power of producing certain mental events [Ross] |
| 23848 | The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish [Weil] |
| 23832 | We both desire what is beautiful, and want it to remain as it is [Weil] |
| 23899 | The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil] |
| 18544 | Maybe 'beauty' is too loaded, and we should talk of fittingness or harmony [Scruton] |
| 18553 | Beauty shows us what we should want in order to achieve human fulfilment [Scruton] |
| 18556 | Beauty is rationally founded, inviting meaning, comparison and self-reflection [Scruton] |
| 6607 | The word 'beautiful', when deprived of context, is nearly contentless [Fogelin] |