A Quote by Amiri Baraka

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Amiri Baraka

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Beauty Responsibility Truth Truth And Beauty

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Amiri Baraka
American - Poet
October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014

The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty.

Alfred North Whitehead

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)

Susan Neiman

God who is goodness and truth is also beauty. It is this innate human and divine longing, found in the company of goodness and truth, that is able to recognize and leap up at beauty and rejoice and know that all is beautiful, that there is not one speck of beauty under the sun that does not mirror back the beauty of God.

Roberta Bondi

Love is beauty and beauty is truth, and that is why in the beauty of a flower we can see the truth of the universe.

Gautama Buddha

Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.

James Joyce

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Matt Haig

Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

Matt Haig

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

Harry Allen Overstreet

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and the more that we ourselves succeed in living in the beauty of truth, the more that faith will be able to return to being creative in our time too, and to express itself in a convincing form of art.

Pope Benedict XVI

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Grace Aguilar

Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

John Pierrakos

I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is violence in all of us, and beauty, and strength, and weakness. What's my job? To only write about the good and the beauty, or is it to write about all of it? That's my greater responsibility, to write about them as I see them and as they are.