“ Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible ”
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). copy citation
| Author | James Joyce |
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| Source | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Topic | truth intellect |
| Date | 1916 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4217/4217-h/4217-h.htm |
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“—No, said Lynch, give me the hypothenuse of the Venus of Praxiteles.
—Static therefore, said Stephen. Plato, I believe, said that beauty is the splendour of truth. I don’t think that it has a meaning, but the true and the beautiful are akin. Truth is beheld by the intellect which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the intelligible; beauty is beheld by the imagination which is appeased by the most satisfying relations of the sensible. The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection.”
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