“The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.”
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“… what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value.”
― Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
― Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”
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