Full Idea
The momentary silencing of all volition …is one of the principal elements in our pleasure in the beautiful.
Gist of Idea
A principal pleasure of the beautiful is that it momentarily silences the will
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea [1819], IV.65)
Book Reference
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'The World as Will and Idea', ed/tr. Berman,Jill and David [Everyman 1995], p.225
A Reaction
Iris Murdoch sees moral value in beauty, because it overrides selfishness. The perception of beauty is certainly something deeper than just another nice feeling. There is a cognitive element to it.