An 18th-century Irish philosopher and statesman whose A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful revolutionized European thinking on the concept of the sublime. He argued that, whereas beautiful things please the senses through their sensible qualities, sublime things create a sense of awe by demonstrating humans’ inadequacy in the face of forces that infinitely exceed them and cannot be controlled by them.
Edmund Burke Quotes in The Art of Travel
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Chapter 6
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The value of landscapes would henceforth be decided not solely on the basis of formal aesthetic criteria (the harmony of colours, for example, or the arrangement of lines) or even economic or practical concerns, but rather according to the power of places to arouse the mind to sublimity.
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Edmund Burke Quotes in The Art of Travel
The The Art of Travel quotes below are all either spoken by Edmund Burke or refer to Edmund Burke. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 6
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The value of landscapes would henceforth be decided not solely on the basis of formal aesthetic criteria (the harmony of colours, for example, or the arrangement of lines) or even economic or practical concerns, but rather according to the power of places to arouse the mind to sublimity.
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