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7194 | Experiencing a thing as beautiful is to experience it wrongly [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: To experience a thing as beautiful necessarily means experiencing it wrongly. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 10[167]) | |
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. |