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  • Die Reihe Action Philosophers hat seinen Ruhm begründet und dieser dritte Sammelband ist wirklich sehr lesenswert und läßt mich noch intensiver danach streben auch die ersten beiden in meinen Besitz zu bringen.

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  • Greek sculpture, between a sonnet and a relief, of French poetry generally with the art of engraving, being more than mere figures of speech; and all the arts in common aspiring towards the principle of music; music being the typical, or ideally consummate [135] art, the object of the great Anders-streben of all art, of all that is artistic, or partakes of artistic qualities.

    The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • French poetry generally with the art of engraving, being more than mere figures of speech; and all the arts in common aspiring towards the principle of music; music being the typical, or ideally consummate art, the object of the great Anders-streben of all art, of all that is artistic, or partakes of artistic qualities.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • Danach lasst uns alle streben (for that let us all strive)

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  • But although each art has thus its own specific order of impressions, and an untranslatable charm, while a just apprehension of the ultimate differences of the arts is the beginning of aesthetic criticism; yet it is noticeable that, in its special mode of handling its given material, each art may be observed to pass into the [134] condition of some other art, by what German critics term an Anders-streben -- a partial alienation from its own limitations, through which the arts are able, not indeed to supply the place of each other, but reciprocally to lend each other new forces.

    The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • But although each art has thus its own specific order of impressions, and an untranslatable charm, while a just apprehension of the ultimate differences of the arts is the beginning of aesthetic criticism; yet it is noticeable that, in its special mode of handling its given material, each art may be observed to pass into the condition of some other art, by what German critics term an Anders-streben -- a partial alienation from its own limitations, by which the arts are able, not indeed to supply the place of each other, but reciprocally to lend each other new forces.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

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