John Lubbock Quotes

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes to the same thing. It's a matter of attitudes.

Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.

Being truthful is the new beautiful

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we. The most distinct and beautiful statements of any truth must take at last the mathematical form. We might so simplify the rules of moral philosophy, as well as of arithmetic, that one formula would express them both.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

Trustable words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not trustable.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.