In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world alas only a very human, an all too human, beauty. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection in select cases he worships himself in it.... Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world alas only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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