Philosophy
The 10 Best Philosophy Quotes On Beauty, Simplified
The philosophy of beauty, or aesthetics, is a really unique segment of thought. It’s often hard to describe, even for philosophers. But because it’s hard to explain, it often leads to the most beautiful paradoxes and complex ideas.
I am going to take 10 of the best philosophy quotes on beauty and break them down in a few sentences.
1. “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Existentialist thinker
For Nietzsche, beauty is something that overtakes the senses on the surface of subjectivity, and doesn’t involve thinking. When beauty enters the depths of human thought, language is destined to try describing and explaining it, thus limiting and degrading it.
2. “At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman”
-Albert Camus, Existentialist thinker
Beauty is beyond human understanding, it is unknowable. But that’s why we are desperate to experience it. The human experience is driven to understand itself by interacting with what is beyond it.
