Single Idea 23070

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime]

Full Idea

Moral disintegration when we spend time in a place that is too beautiful: the self dissolves upon contact with paradise.

Gist of Idea

We morally dissolve if we spend time with excessive beauty

Source

E.M. Cioran (The Trouble with Being Born [1973], 06)

Book Reference

Cioran,E.M.: 'The Trouble with Being Born', ed/tr. Richard Howard [Penguin 2012], p.79


A Reaction

I'm not sure whether that is true, but it is worth thinking about the value of experiences which are overwhelming.