The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Aim
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
Nature isn’t positive in that way. It doesn’t aim itself at you. It’s not being unkind to you.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order.