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Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.

— Frithjof Schuon

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Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.

Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.

Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.

The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.

Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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