“As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.” MindDoeArtEnjoyUnderstandingTasteConcernedAppreciateFormerLatter Author:Franz Grillparzer
“A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.” ShouldFormIndividualEnjoyPleasureDemocracyOughtTasteAdvantageExpectedLatterRepublicFrugality Book:The Spirit of Laws Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.” IdeasRealizingTasteFunctionIntellectActiveSensesFormerLatterFacultyPassive Book:The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments Source: The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments