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May 7, 2008

public opinion in aesthetic matters

Public opinion in aesthetic matters is so insipid, uncertain and easily misled that it beholds such an exhibition of the sorriest philistinism without protest, that it lacks, indeed, any feeling for the comicality of a scene in which an unaesthetic magistrate sits in judgment on Beethoven. And as for Mozart, there ought truly to apply to him what Aristotle said of Plato: "the bad man is not permitted even to praise him."


Nietzsche - David Strauss, the confessor and the writer

Posted by amin at May 7, 2008 11:59 AM