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Beauty shows that culture is not simply utilitarian, since a lack of beauty is something civilization cannot tolerate
Drawn from what Sigmund Freud said
What Sigmund Freud actually said
- Sigmund Freud Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939)
Beauty is an instance which plainly shows that culture is not simply utilitarian in its aims, for the lack of beauty is a thing we cannot tolerate in civilization.
Where this was said
↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org
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