Aesthetics
Quotes & Thinkers in Aesthetics
18 thinkers
"And O! how the mind is here washed clean of all its early ingrafted Jewish superstition! It is the most profitable and elevating reading which is possible in the world. It has been the solace of my life, and will be the solace of my death."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy
Idealism
1788–1860
"Life is a business that does not cover the costs."
157 quotes
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy
Idealism
1770–1831
"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought...""
92 quotes
🇿🇦David Hume
Philosophy
Empiricism
1796–1864
"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."
127 quotes
🇩🇪Hermann Cohen
Philosophy
Western philosophy
1842–1918
"Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God."
6 quotes
🇬🇧Philippa Foot
Philosophy
1920–2010
5 quotes
🇬🇧Roger Scruton
Literature
conservatism
1944–2020
"Conservatism is a philosophy of inheritance and stewardship; it does not squander resources but strives to enhance them and pass them on."
44 quotes
🇮🇹Giorgio Agamben
Literature
continental philosophy
b. 1942
4 quotes
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Philosophy
1877–1947
"He was definitely an apologist of Hinduism, a defender of Hindu values and traditions against the numerous misconceptions and prejudices common among the Western and anglicized-Indian audiences."
5 quotes
🇩🇪Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_Schelling
Philosophy
German idealism
1775–1854
9 quotes
🇺🇸Arnold Berleant
Philosophy
b. 1932
1 quotes
🇺🇸David Bentley Hart
Literature
b. 1965
"Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division."
8 quotes
🇮🇹Benedetto Croce
Philosophy
Liberalism
1866–1952
"Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind."
3 quotes
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🇬🇧Nigel Warburton
Philosophy
b. 1962
"One important reason for studying philosophy is that it deals with fundamental questions about the meaning of our existence."
7 quotes
🇩🇪Hans-Georg Gadamer
Philosophy
1900–2002
"Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Stanley Cavell
Philosophy
1926–2018
"I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word."
3 quotes
🇫🇷Georges Bataille
Literature
Structuralism
1897–1962
"Love then screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun."
41 quotes
🇫🇷Jean-François Lyotard
Philosophy
Continental philosophy
1924–1998
"I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives."
25 quotes
🇫🇷Gaston Bachelard
Philosophy
historical epistemology
1884–1962
"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."
26 quotes
Notable Quotes
"In history, we are concerned with what has been and what is; in philosophy, however, we are concerned not with what belongs exclusively to the past or to the future, but with that which is, both now and eternally — in short, with reason."
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →
"...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is—nothing."
— Arthur Schopenhauer, b. 1788View →
"And O! how the mind is here washed clean of all its early ingrafted Jewish superstition ! It is the most profitable and elevating reading which is possible in the world. It has been the solace of my life, and will be the solace of my death."
— Arthur Schopenhauer, b. 1788View →
"The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one."
— David Hume, b. 1796View →
"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought...""
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →