Single Idea 7194

[catalogued under 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude]

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 Reference

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.