Aesthetic Quote by Lionel Trilling

“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas that dominate…

— Dallas Willard

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance…

— William Hazlitt

We worship the aesthetic, but we do not have faith in it.

— Mason Cooley

“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in…

— Harold Bloom

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

— Herbert Marcuse

“In truth, nothing could be more opposed to the purely aesthetic interpretation and justification of the world which are taught in this book than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

— John Sterling

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

“We have lived for too long with the arts as the pretty bit around the edge with the reality as a non-artistic thing in…

— N.T. Wright