Edgard de Bruyne:
Beauty is the Invisible becoming visible, the incomprehensible becoming intelligible, the unknowable manifesting itself, that which goes beyond all form appearing in a specific and determined figure.
All this is done in an ineffable way. The beauty of a symphony is inexpressible: how to explain the unity in which all the different sounds are combined? ...
Ineffable above all is the beauty of God. ... It is no wonder that delectation of beauty is inexpressible. ... Silence alone can correspond to the ineffable: the supreme homage we can render beauty is to keep silent when it appears.
Behold us at the threshold of mystics. ... Yet, behold us still at the threshold of metaphysics.[1]
[1] L’Esthétique du Moyen Âge, Editions de l´Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Louvain, 1947, pp. 91-92.
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