Beauty is a promise of happiness
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| - | | style="text-align: left;" |[[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s famous definition of the [[beauty|beautiful]]. "That is beautiful," says Kant, "which pleases without [[Interest (emotion)|interesting]]." Without interesting! Compare this definition with this other one [..] by [[Stendhal]], who once called the beautiful une ''[[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur|promesse de bonheur]]''. Here, at any rate, the one point which Kant makes prominent in the aesthetic position is repudiated and eliminated—le [[Disinterestedness|désinteressement]]. Who is right, Kant or Stendhal? --Nietzsche, ''[[On the Genealogy of Morality]]'' | ||
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| [[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur]] is a dictum by [[Stendhal]]. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "[[On Love (Stendhal) |De l'amour]]" (On Love). | [[La beauté est une promesse de bonheur]] is a dictum by [[Stendhal]]. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "[[On Love (Stendhal) |De l'amour]]" (On Love). | ||
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La beauté est une promesse de bonheur is a dictum by Stendhal. It was first published as a footnote in his essay "De l'amour" (On Love).
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