Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world r

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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