Aesthetics Quote by Immanuel Kant

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or…

— Antoni Tapies

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives…

— Victor Cousin

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

— Herbert Marcuse

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

— Friedrich Schiller

Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical…

— John Stuart Mill

...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from…

— Havelock Ellis

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the…

— David Hume

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…

— Immanuel Kant

“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.”

— Joseph Brodsky

The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it.

— Mark Twain