What is Beauty? (St. Augustine) - a podcast by Dre Carlan

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“I used to ask my friends ‘Do we love anything unless it is beautiful? What, then, is beauty and in what does it consist? What is it that attracts us and wins us over to the things we love? Unless there were beauty and grace in them, they would be powerless to win our hearts.’”
-Confessions, Book IV, Ch. 13


“For beauty does not depend on mere size, but on the symmetry and proportion of the component parts.”
-City of God, Book XI, Ch. 22


“Then there is the beauty and utility of the natural creation, which the divine generosity has bestowed on man, for him to behold and to take into use...How could any description do justice to all these blessings? The manifold diversity of beauty in sky and earth and sea; the abundance of light, and its miraculous loveliness, in sun and moon and stars; the dark shades of woods, the color and fragrance of flowers;...Then there is the mighty spectacle of the sea itself, putting on its changing colors like different garments, now green, with all the many varied shades, now purple, now blue.”
-City of God, Book XXII, Ch. 24

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