Quote of Pierre Reverdy - Ethics is the aesthetics of the...
Biography - Pierre Reverdy:
French poet whose works were inspired by and subsequently proceeded to influence Surrealism, Dadaism and Cubism.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1889 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
Ethics is the aesthetics of the inside.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about ethics:
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Quotes for: aesthetics
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
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