If something is true, it must also be good and it also must be beautiful.
I may know that something is true with my mind, but desire something that is less than beautiful. Consider Solomon. Solomon knew what was true, but his many wives drew his heart away to many other Gods by influencing his appetites.
We therefore need both the mind and the heart turned towards real beauty and actual goodness to bring us to truth.
Father Mike makes this case quickly.
Saint Thomas Aquinas approached this when discussing hate. He said that we cannot hate being or goodness. God made all things, and being itself. Since God made things, those things are therefore goodness. To Saint Thomas Aquinas, being = goodness. So we have an expansion into truth and beauty.
Being is goodness, and it is also beautiful and therefore reveals truth. I would say then that a fact of truth then is good, and there is divine beauty recognizable in it. I mentioned this somewhat in a blog entry.
Dostoyevsky on Beauty “Beauty will save the world”
Solzhenitsyn's essay on beauty
“People of today and tomorrow need this enthusiasm [of wonder] if they are to meet and master the crucial challenges which stand before us. Thanks to this enthusiasm, humanity, every time it loses its way, will be able to lift itself up and set out again on the right path. In this sense it has been said with profound insight that ‘beauty will save the world’ (§16).”
I was listening to a clip of Jordan Peterson speaking with Randall Wallace on beauty and the Beauty of Marriage.