Quotation by

Hans Urs von Balthasar

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

Beauty

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Hans Urs von Balthasar is saying that people have stopped trusting that beauty has real value or meaning beyond how it looks. Instead, they treat beauty as just a surface thing, so they can ignore its deeper significance more easily.

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