Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Beauty or Reality?



...nothing is real beyond the imaginative patterns men make of reality, and hence there are exactly as many kinds of reality as there are men. "Every man's wisdom is peculiar to his own individuality," and there is no other kind of wisdom: reality is as much in the eye of the beholder as beauty is said to be.
Northrop Frye (quoting William Blake), Fearful Symmetry, p. 19

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