...aesthetic pleasures is contrasted with the personal isolative character of the lower sense pleasures. But " nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most " (Sense of Beauty, p. 43). The truth is, that the aesthetic character of an experience turns, not...

...taste within the range of conventional history helps the pretension. But in principle it is untenable. Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most. The symphony would lose nothing if half mankind had always been deaf, as ninetenths of them actually...

...range of conventional history helps the pretension. But in principle it is untenable. ( Noth- J ing has less to do with the real merit of a work of imagination...appreciate it; the true test is the degree and kind of _ satisfaction it can give to hiii who appreciate f it »i«*2».Tfc< t injihony v ould lose nothing...

...beauty a judgment rather than a sensation. . . . But in principle it" (this pretension) "is untenable. Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most." This long quotation of extracts from Santayana's book, which should be read without abbreviation to...

...science are reserved for a minority; and, as Santayana observes, "True test of a work of imagination is the degree and kind of satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most." However, the fact that most people, even perhaps most scientists, will fail to gain direct appreciation...

...taste within the range of conventional history helps the pretension. But in principle it is untenable. Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most. The symphony would lose nothing if half mankind had always been deaf, as ninetenths of them actually...

...taste within the range of conventional history helps the pretension. But in principle it is untenable. Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...true test is the degree and kind of satisfaction it ean give to him who appreciates it most. The symphony would lose nothing if half mankind had always...

...where a variety of different circumstances all point to a single conclusion" (marginal lining, p. 7). "Nothing has less to do with the real merit of a work...satisfaction it can give to him who appreciates it most" (quoting Santayana; underlining, p. 52). The critic "is to judge the degree of realization of experience...