“The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed.” WorldArtSoulWholeRealityPurposeArt IsPressesCommunicateObjectivesConventionsConcealedObjective RealityPurpose Of Art Book:The Nature of Sympathy Source: The Nature of Sympathy
“Ressentiment is always to some degree a determinant of the romantic type of mind. At least this is so when the romantic nostalgia for some past era (Hellas, the Middle Ages, etc.) is not primarily based on the values of that period, but on the wish to escape from the present. Then all praise of the “past” has the implied purpose of downgrading present-day reality.” MindRealityAgePastPurposeValuesWishMiddleTypePeriodsDegreesPraiseNostalgiaErasEtcMiddle AgesPresent DayImpliedDowngrading Book:On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings
