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
Name: Hans Urs von Balthasar Type: Theologian Nationality: Swiss Birth: August 12, 1905 Death: June 26, 1988 |