#2,955

Those who insist on being up to date with today’s fashion are less irritating than those who try too hard when they do not feel that they are up to date with tomorrow’s fashion.
The bourgeoisie is aesthetically more tolerable than the avant-garde.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,938

Baroque, preciosity, modernism, are noble failings, but failings in the end.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,850

The nature of the work of art can depend on social conditions, but its aesthetic quality depends on nothing.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,849

In modern art there were numerous trends that exhausted the aesthetic consciousness’s capacity for indignation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,824

The wealth of a merchant, of an industrialist, of a financier, is aesthetically inferior to wealth in land and flocks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,683

Interesting autobiographies would be plentiful if writing the truth were not an aesthetic problem.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 432

#2,576

The aesthetic impossibilities of an age stem not from social factors, but from internal censors.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,542

The civilizing effect of works of art is due less to the aesthetic value than to the ethic of aesthetic work.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 408

#2,537

In aesthetics as well, one only reaches heaven by the uneven road and through the narrow gate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 408

#2,526

Ethics and aesthetics, when divorced, each submit more readily to man’s whims.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,487

Approaching religion through art is not the caprice of an aesthete: aesthetic experience spontaneously tends to expand into a presentiment of religious experience.
From an aesthetic experience one returns as from a sighting of numinous footprints.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,483

Discipline, order, hierarchy, are aesthetic values.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 400

#2,449

Civilizations enter into agony when they forget that there exists not merely an aesthetic activity, but also an aesthetic of activity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 394

#2,409

The evolution of works of art into objects of art and of objects of art into investments or into articles for consumption is a modern phenomenon.
A process that does not evidence a diffusion of the aesthetic, but rather the culmination of contemporary economism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,406

Ethical conduct is the aesthetically satisfactory conduct.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 388

#2,382

When religion and aesthetics are divorced from each other, it is not known which is corrupted sooner.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 385

#2,373

It has required a titanic effort to make the modern world so ugly.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 384

#2,120

The society that does not discipline attitudes and gestures renounces social aesthetics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 346

#2,105

Since the 18th century discovered “sensibility,” the serious philosophical task has consisted in isolating in it specific capacities for perception which are confused with passive psychological states.
Ethical consciousness, aesthetic consciousness, religious consciousness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 341

#2,039

The conventional is not necessarily an aesthetic defect, since it is merely a sociological trait.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 331