Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty the contemplation of mystery or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought deep freighted with truth and beauty.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth goodness and beauty are one. In the morning when they commit their discovery to paper when others read it written there it looks wholly ridiculous.
If truth is beauty how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth goodness beauty love and compassion and also intuition creativity insight and focused attention.
'Beauty is truth truth beauty ' - that is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory beauty truth knowledge virtue and abiding love.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth follow only beauty and obey only love.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof the true mark of a Christian?
But the attitude of faith is to let go and become open to truth whatever it might turn out to be.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.
Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things our dream-life the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
It is the glory and good of Art That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth to mouths like mine at least.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth wisdom is dying out.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.