The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller.
So perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth? If the tops of these three trees converge, as the scholars maintained, but the too blatant, too direct stems of Truth and Goodness are crushed, cut down, not allowed through - then perhaps the fantastic, unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push through and soar TO THAT VERY SAME PLACE, and in so doing will fulfill the work of all three?
~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, from his lecture upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize, 1901
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. ~ Helen Keller
Love is a verb. ~ bell hooks
So perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident, materialistic youth? If the tops of these three trees converge, as the scholars maintained, but the too blatant, too direct stems of Truth and Goodness are crushed, cut down, not allowed through - then perhaps the fantastic, unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push through and soar TO THAT VERY SAME PLACE, and in so doing will fulfill the work of all three?
~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, from his lecture upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize, 1901
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. ~ Helen Keller
Love is a verb. ~ bell hooks
