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Full Idea
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
Gist of Idea
All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty
Source
Simone Weil (Human Personality [1943], p.93)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.93
A Reaction
The embodiment of platonist values. Without the platonist ontology, I like the identification of a few core values, and have always thought that Beauty, Goodness and Truth were a well chosen trio. Swapping 'justice' for 'goodness' is interesting.
Related Idea
Idea 8117 Perfection comes through the senses (Beauty), through reason (Truth), and through moral will (Good) [Baumgarten, by Tolstoy]