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21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 5. Objectivism in Art

6611	One man's meat is another man's poison [Lucretius]
	Full Idea: What is food to one may be literally poison to others.
	From: Lucretius (On the Nature of the Universe [c.60 BCE], IV.638)
	A reaction: This seems to be the origin of the well-known saying. This is not relativism of perception, but a relativism of how individuals actually respond to the world. It sums up the position with, say, the operas of Wagner.