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Full Idea
To experience a thing as beautiful necessarily means experiencing it wrongly.
Gist of Idea
Experiencing a thing as beautiful is to experience it wrongly
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 10[167])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.203
A Reaction
So much for 'beauty is truth' (Keats). I suppose I agree, for example, about a face. If you don't experience the beauty of a good melody, there is nothing else left to experience - no mundane truth that needs reporting.