Letter XXVII DO not fear for reality and truth. Even if the elevated idea of æsthetic appearance became general, it would not become...

Letter XXVI I HAVE shown in the previous letters that it is only the æsthetic disposition of the soul that gives birth to liberty, it...

Letter XXII ACCORDINGLY, if the æsthetic disposition of the mind must be looked upon in one respect as nothing—that is, when we confine...

XVII WHILE we were only engaged in deducing the universal idea of beauty from the conception of human nature in general, we had only to...

Letter XVI FROM the antagonism of the two impulsions, and from the association of two opposite principles, we have seen beauty to result,...

Chapter 57 Govern a country with upright integrity Deploy the military with surprise tactics Take the world with non-interference How...

Letter XIV WE have been brought to the idea of such a correlation between the two impulsions that the action of the one establishes and...

Letter XIII ON a first survey, nothing appears more opposed than these two impulsions; one having for its object change, the other...

Chapter 1 The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal name The nameless is the...

Civil war, the spoils of Asia, and the fatal predominance first of the Macedonian, and then of the Roman arms, were so many symbols of...