„Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.“

— Carl von Clausewitz

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„A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. One seeks the most general ideas of operation which will bring together in simple, logical and unified form the largest possible circle of formal relationships. In this effort toward logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.“
— Albert Einstein
„Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.“
— Albert Einstein
„Thus, Beauty is neither an appearance nor a being, but a relationship: the transformation of being into appearance“
— Jean Paul Sartre