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.
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Nationality: Swiss Type: Theologian Born: August 12, 1905 Death: June 26, 1988 |
“I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.”
“Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.”