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That is not declamation, but it is display.
—because it is suited to being described. That is how David would easily have found legitimate what would have seemed beautiful to him to paint.
Of calling everything by its name.
April […].
The ancients understood ceremonies wonderfully well. Ceremonies partake of the beautiful. (See page 130 of the notes on the Peripolitik. The election of senators at Sparta.)
April […].
“Honorable,” the ancients used to say, and they made the honorable an end of actions, to speak their language. And indeed there are two utilities in doing what is honorable: the first is that the honorable soul finds pleasure in it, thus exercising its nature, and also finds honor in it by showing itself as it is.
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Arise, tamed passions, repressed desires, sins erased by repentance; arise and come defend...
... and of those voids that form something like perspective.
That philosophy has done harm, it is through philosophy that we discover it and can prove it.
A kind of geometry. The words they use in such a case partake of the nature of lines, and their reasonings of the nature of figures. The pleasure the mind receives from it is entirely mathematical.
The bee and the wasp suck the same flowers, but they do not both know how to find the same honey there. (In the enclosure.)
(Enclosure and path.) To walk like the lark, far from and above its nest.
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Music. Useful through harmony alone (a thing regulated and tempered in sound) and because, as the ancients said, it accustoms (or can accustom) the mind to rejoice honorably. (See chapter V of book VIII, Peripolitik.)
(To purge, in Aristotle, does not mean simply to purify, as I had believed, but something like to evacuate. See the last chapter of the Peripolitikon: he expressly uses this idea and this word there.)
Yes, the same music, the same manners, the same precepts.