...aesthetic Socratism, the chief law of which is, more or less: "to be beautiful everything must first be intelligible" - a parallel to the Socratic dictum: "only the one who knows is virtuous." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

...aesthetic Socratism, the chief law of which is, more or less: "to be beautiful everything must first be intelligible" - a parallel to the Socratic dictum: "only the one who knows is virtuous."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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