Truth and beauty
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Both ancients and moderns have wished that there was a close association between beauty and truth. The poet John Keats, in his Ode on a Grecian Urn, put it this way:
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
See also
- Kantian aesthetics
- Kalos kagathos
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- The Phoenix and the Turtle
- Transcendentals
- Golden mean (philosophy)
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten: Tolstoy opposed "Baumgarten's trinity — Good, Truth and Beauty…."
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