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Beauty and utility

Posted by luno in aesthetics, Nietzsche (Friday July 22, 2005 at 12:37 pm)
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Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man”, sec. 22.

I take a single case. Schopenhauer speaks of beauty with a melancholy fervor—why, in the last resort? Because he sees in it a bridge on which one will go farther, or develop a thirst to go farther … It is for […]