That one's aesthetic supersedes one's ethics. The most important choices are made subconsciously based on one's system of aesthetic.
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Full quote is: “What is required is to stop courageously at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore appearance, to believe in forms, tones, words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial – out of profundity!"
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The preface to his assertion... No, this bad taste, this will to truth, to “truth at any price,” this youthful madness in the love of truth, have lost their charm for us: for that we are too experienced, too serious, too merry, too burned, too profound...
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I always viewed that quote as meaning "don't over-analyze". Something along the lines of what Sontag talks about in Against Interpretation http://shifter-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sontag-Against-Interpretation.pdf …
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