Aesthetic Quote by Timothy Morton

“Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic…

— James David Lewis-Williams

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

— Daniel Tammet

“The prominence of causal intuitions is a recurrent theme in this book because people are prone to apply causal thinking inappropriately, to situations that…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Perceptual fields are limited by the attractor patterns that they're associated with. This means that the capacity to recognize significant factors in a given…

— David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D

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

— Herbert Marcuse

“The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results, and one's role in them.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events…

— Phillip E. Johnson

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

— Albert Einstein

I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature…

— Robert Boyle

We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past…

— David Hume

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing…

— Philip K. Dick

Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of…

— Jorge Luis Borges