found in my camera roll during a flight https://t.co/udHuiaaBl8
Beauty and the personal equation are the two "leitmotive" of Nietzsche's history of the pre-So-cratian philosophers. Especially does he lay stress upon the personal equation, since that is the only permanent item of interest, considering that every "System" crumbles into nothing with the appear-ance of a new thinker.
Friedrich Nietzsche • On Music and Words
Why Beauty Matters
(and how it has been destroyed by "usability")
A short thread... https://t.co/lBixviXkT9
beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more meaningful.
Donna Tartt • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies. It makes certain things so obvious. How we spend the present trying to secure the future, and thus squander what’s in front of us. How we fail to appreciate what we may later understand as an experience of unbelievable plenty: unlined skin, spare time on Sa
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