Book detail: The Sense of Beauty is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This work delves into the nature of beauty, examining its various interpretations and the philosophical underpinnings of aesthetic judgment.
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“A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.”
“Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.”
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”
“Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.”
“Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.”
“Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it.”
“love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.”
“Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.”
“The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence”