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“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.”

Mean Beautiful Please Goodness Relation Add Pleasant Faculty Appetite Cognitive

Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 2 (Part II, First Section)

“I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.”

Source: The private Albert Einstein

“How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.”

Ifs Men Character Seems Beautiful Three Conscious Relation Peaceful Supposed To Be Reverence Abraham Genesis

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge