[WT Sharpe]

.....Now, I say, the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good, and only in this light (a point of view natural to every one, and one which every one exacts from others as a duty) does it give us pleasure with an attendant claim to the agreement of every one else, whereupon the mind becomes conscious of a certain ennoblement and elevation above mere sensibility to pleasure from impressions of sense, and also appraises the worth of others on the score of a like maxim of their judgment.
..........— Immanuel Kant (1724 –1804), German philosopher. The Critique of Judgment (1790),translated by James Creed Meredith. "Beauty as the symbol of morality."