"In a world without beauty - even if people cannot dispense with the word and constantly have it on the tip of their tongues in order to abuse it - in a world which is perhaps not wholly without beauty, but which can no longer see it or reckon with it: in such a world the good also loses its attractiveness, the self-evident of why it must be carried out. Man stands before the good and asks himself why it must be done and not rather its alternative evil... In a world that no longer has enough confidence in itself to affirm the beautiful, the proofs of the truth have lost their cogency."Hans Urs Von Balthasar, The Glory of the Lord: I Seeing the Form (Ignatius Press, p. 19)
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