Beautiful Quote by Alexander Nehamas

“So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.” quote by Alexander Nehamas — Download Open image

“So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.”

Alexander Nehamas

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