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Aesthetic
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Alles Schöne, von welcher Art es auch sein mag, ist an und für sich schön und in sich selbst vollendet. Das Lob bildet keinen Bestandteil seines Wesens, und es wird mithin durch dasselbe weder schlechter noch besser.
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― Meditations
― Meditations
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Just to think that you are killing an animal to eat, just the very idea, is unaesthetic.
I am not against it because the animal is killed... because that which is essential in the animal will live, it cannot be killed, and that which is nonessential, whether you kill it or not, is going to die. So that is irrelevant, that is not a point for me to consider.
The question is not that you have killed the animal and killing is not good, no. The question is that you have killed the animal -- you.
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― The Diamond Sutra: The Buddha Also Said...
― The Diamond Sutra: The Buddha Also Said...
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