“Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“Truth, Goodness, Beauty — those celestial thrins,
Continually are born”
June 14, 1838
Journals (1838-1859)
Context: Truth, Goodness, Beauty — those celestial thrins,
Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,
With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,
Its joy confesses at their recent birth.
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Continually are born" by Henry David Thoreau?
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“Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony.”
John D. Barrow (1952–2020) British scientist
The Artful Universe (1995)
Context: Ancient belief in a cosmos composed of spheres, producing music as angels guided them through the heavens, was still fluorishing in Elizabethan times.... There is a good deal more to Pythagorean musical theory than celestial harmony. Besides the music of the celestial spheres (musica mundana), two other varieties of music were distinguished: the sound of instruments...(musica instrumentalis), and the continuous unheard music that emanated from the human body (musica humana), which arises from a resonance between the body and the soul.... In the medieval world, the status of music is revealed by its position within the Quadrivium—the fourfold curriculum—alongside arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy. Medieval students... believed all forms of harmony to derive from a common source. Before Boethius' studies in the ninth century, the idea of musical harmony was not considered independently of wider matters of celestial or ethical harmony.<!-- Ch. 5, pp. 201-202
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn
Source: Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems