| 185 | Socrates despised good looks [Socrates, by Plato] |
| 282 | Non-physical beauty can only be shown clearly by speech [Plato] |
| 183 | Stage two is the realisation that beauty of soul is of more value than beauty of body [Plato] |
| 184 | Progress goes from physical beauty, to moral beauty, to the beauty of knowledge, and reaches absolute beauty [Plato] |
| 2837 | Nothing contrary to nature is beautiful [Aristotle] |
| 5851 | Pentathletes look the most beautiful, because they combine speed and strength [Aristotle] |
| 4870 | The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible [Spinoza] |
| 7540 | Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws [Goethe] |
| 19578 | Only self-illuminated perfect individuals are beautiful [Novalis] |
| 22042 | Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
| 18326 | The beautiful never stands alone; it derives from man's pleasure in man [Nietzsche] |
| 23921 | Our feeling for natural beauty is different from the aesthetic emotion of art [Bell,C] |
| 23929 | We only see landscapes as artistic if we ignore their instrumental value [Bell,C] |
| 18548 | Natural beauty reassures us that the world is where we belong [Scruton] |