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Beautiful Quotes - Page 155

Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.

Parliament Hill Speech, Ottawa, Canada, June 2, 2009.

A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.136, Penguin

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

There was a Socratic style of life (which the Cynics were to imitate), and the Socratic dialogue was an exercise which brought Socrates' interlocutor to put himself in question, to take care of himself, and to make his soul as beautiful and wise as possible.

"La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 269), 2001.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

"Paul Auster Meditates On Life, Death And Near Misses". Interview with Terry Gross, nwpr.org. August 23, 2012.