“‘How ugly the stars are tonight! How trivial the pounding of the waves on the beach! And is it not crass to be thrilled by mountains? The rain forest and the wild-flowers are quite repulsive. And as for sunsets…’. If a full-blown relativism in aesthetics was correct, then those responses would be unusual but not in any way improper. But my reaction is that anyone who fails to appreciate the beauty of this universe is defective.”
—Peter Forrest, God without the Supernatural (Cornell, 1996), p. 133.
Interesting citation, thanks Chad :)
Comment by John Bainbridge — January 31, 2019 @ 4:40 pm |