…perhaps that ancient trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is not simply an
empty, faded formula as we thought in the days of our self-confident,
materialistic youth? If the tops of these three trees converge, as the scholars
maintained, but the too blatant, too direct stems of Truth and Goodness are
crushed, cut down, not allowed through – then perhaps the fantastic,
unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push through and soar to that
very same place, and in so doing will fulfil the work of all three?
– Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize in Literature speech, 1970