Hans Urs von Balthasar - Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to...

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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

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Schönheit ist die desinteressierte, ohne die sich die alte Welt nicht verstanden hat, ein Wort, das unmerklich und doch unverkennbar unsere neue Welt, eine Welt der Interessen, verabschiedet hat, die es ihrer eigenen Geiz und Traurigkeit überlässt.

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