Aesthetic Judgments

Famous quotes containing the words aesthetic judgments, aesthetic and/or judgments:

    The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)