“Beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.”

— Thomas Aquinas , book Summa Theologica

I–II, q. 27, art. 1, 3
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

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Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

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“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher

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“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us.”

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“Spiritual beauty or the good, generally not only does not coincide with the typical meaning of beauty, it is its opposite.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

What is Art? (1897)
Context: The good is the everlasting, the pinnacle of our life. … life is striving towards the good, toward God. The good is the most basic idea … an idea not definable by reason … yet is the postulate from which all else follows. But the beautiful … is just that which is pleasing. The idea of beauty is not an alignment to the good, but is its opposite, because for most part, the good aids in our victory over our predilections, while beauty is the motive of our predilections. The more we succumb to beauty, the further we are displaced from the good.... the usual response is that there exists a moral and spiritual beauty … we mean simply the good. Spiritual beauty or the good, generally not only does not coincide with the typical meaning of beauty, it is its opposite.