"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the……" — Hans Urs von Balthasar
"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."
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
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49 Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In…
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Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and…
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Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes…
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to…
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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More Ancient Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
— Wendell Berry
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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