Beauty will save the world quote
The quote “Beauty will save the world” from Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is often misunderstood to intend the surface appeal of things matter most. So long as the world around you looks lovely, the world is alright.
Boots on the ground, this plan looks more like recognizing the actual beauty in all things, even if they don’t sound lovely at first glance. It means choosing to believe, even during the ordinary liturgy of living life, that beauty is there, underneath the cracked surface of all we see.
When we choose (because it’s indeed a choice) to recognize the innate beauty in a creation bestowed by its Creator, we contain within us the capacity to be saved from the draw of despair, the desire to anesthetize with mediocre, the yearn to YOLO. That’s astounding.
Life is beautiful, even with its many cracks. Leonard Cohen once penned, “There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” We know of the relief of sunshine because of endless gray days. We understand of the ordinary magic of light switches because of thunderstorms that temporarily zap its influence. We know of contented days of laundry folding, the pleasure of quiet drives on windy farm roads, and the offering of a drink wi
The Meaning of Dostoevsky’s “Beauty Will Save the World”
By Vladimir Soloviev
Dostoevsky not only preached, but, to a certain degree also demonstrated in his own activity this reunification of concerns common to humanity–at least of the highest among these concerns–in one Christian idea.
Being a religious person, he was at the same time a free thinker and a powerful artist. These three aspects , these three higher concerns were not differentiated in him and did not exclude one another, but entered indivisibly into all his activity. In his convictions he never separated truth from good and beauty; in his artistic creativity he never placed beauty apart from the good and the true.
And he was right, because these three live only in their unity. The good, taken separately from truth and beauty, is only an indistinct feeling, a powerless upwelling; truth taken abstractly is an empty word; and beauty without truth and the good is an idol. For Dostoevsky, these were three inseparable forms of one absolute Idea.
The infinity of the human soul–having been revealed in Christ and capable of fitting into
Pope Francis quotes Dostoyevski: 'Beauty will save the world'
Virgin salus populi romani at St Mary Maggiori
'Beauty will save the world'. Pope Francis quoted this famous line from the celebrated Russian creator Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in his word to the Moscow Synodal Choir, who gave a concert in the Papal Basilica of St Mary Major on Sunday evening, 3 November.
“Music, painting, sculpture, architecture is simply the beauty that unites us to grow in the faith which is renowned, in prophetic hope and in witnessed charity”, he said.
In a message to the choir, interpret in the Basilica by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect Congregation for the Eastern Churches, Pope Francis said: "“Looking back over the history of Christianity which spans thousands of years, we may observe that in spite of the separate historical events and different ways of understanding finding, a deep unity has been maintained in art” - a unity fostered by frequent meetings of study and reflection together on our common sources.
In the Church “art in all its forms, does not exist only for simple aesthetic enjoyment but because, through art the Church in every moment of history and in every culture,
Can Beauty Save the World?
Dostoyevsky once let drop the enigmatic phrase: “Beauty will save the world.” What does this mean? For a long time it used to seem to me that this was a mere expression. Just how could such a thing be possible? When had it ever happened in the bloodthirsty course of history that beauty had saved anyone from anything? Beauty had provided embellishment certainly, given uplift—but whom had it ever saved?
However, there is a special quality in the essence of beauty, a special quality in the status of art: the conviction carried by a genuine work of art is absolutely indisputable and tames even the strongly opposed heart. One can construct a political speech, an assertive journalistic polemic, a program for organizing society, a philosophical system, so that in appearance it is smooth, well structured, and yet it is built upon a mistake, a lie; and the hidden element, the distortion, will not immediately become visible. And a speech, or a journalistic essay, or a program in rebuttal, or a different philosophical structure can be counterposed to the first—and it will look just as well constructed and as smooth, and everything will seem
Beauty Will Save the World Quotes
“Here in the second beatitude, Jesus is making an crucial announcement to those who, instead of finding a means of avoiding personal pain and distributed sorrow, have allowed themselves to be sculpted by pain and sorrow. Jesus seems to be saying that it is those who have given up organism comfortably numb through shallow contentment and have instead engaged in the real work of grief—for there is much in this world to grieve over—who are the ones who will meeting the deep comfort of the kingdom of God.”
― Brian Zahnd, Beauty Will Conserve the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
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“Because we are uncomfortable with sorrow, we passively enforce a benign of mandated happiness in our churches. Instead of weeping with those who weep, we crave everybody to just cheer up. And we want them to cheer up for our sake. . . because we are so terribly uncomfortable with their sorrow. What we should undertake instead is join them in their sorrow and assist them in the work of grief. When human beings suffer tragedy and profound loss, there is a certain amount of grieving that is required. But in the deep mystery of