![]() ![]() In other words, having become more intelligent creates some rights to be less. This is one of those sophisms that the vanity of intelligent people picks up in the arsenal of their intelligence to justify their basest inclinations. A man is not more entitled to be "received in good society," or at least to wish to be, because he is more intelligent and cultivated.Wolfe (Yale University Press, 1987, ISBN 3-4, p. ![]() ![]() ![]() Preface (1910) to The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin, translated by Proust (1904) from Marcel Proust: On Reading Ruskin, trans.I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it. I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it.A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more acute, but not remain as pure.1.1.3 Vol III: The Guermantes Way (1920).1.1.2 Vol II: Within a Budding Grove (1919).1.1 In Search of Lost Time / Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927). ![]()
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