„…aesthetic Socratism, the chief law of which is, more or less: “to be beautiful everything must first be intelligible” — a parallel to the Socratic dictum: “only the one who knows is virtuous.”“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„If there is anything beautiful other than absolute beauty, that can only be beautiful as far as it partakes of absolute beauty—and this I should say of everything. …by beauty all things become beautiful. …by greatness only great things become great and greater and greater, and by smallness the less becomes less.“
— Socrates
„The laws of nature are sublime, but there is a moral sublimity before which the highest intelligences must kneel and adore.“
— Horace Mann