“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.”

“When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil.”

“All in the world know the beauty of the beautiful, and in doing this they have (the idea of) what ugliness is;”

“Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”

“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”