"Cunku guzellik, sevgili Phaidroscugum yalnizca guzellik, hem sevilmeye deger hem de goze gorunur bir seydir; guzellik, bunu iyice belle, tinsel olanin duyularla kavrayip duyularla katlanabilecegimiz tek bicimidir. Yoksa oteki tanrisal kavramlar da, akil, erdem, hakikat de bize duyularimizla gorunseydi, halimiz nice olurdu? Vaktiyle Zeus karsisinda Semele gibi asktan eriyip bitmez, yanip kul olmaz miydik?" Thomas Mann, Venedik'te Olum
"For Beauty, dear Phaedrus, only Beauty is at one and the same time divinely desirable and visible: it is, mark well, the only form of the spiritual that we can receive with our senses and endure with our senses. For what would become of us if other divine things, if Reason and Virtue and Truth were to appear to us sensuously? Should we not perish in a conflagration of love, as once upon a time Semele did before Zeus?"


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