Abstract
In the Notebooks of Raymond Chandler, inventor of the legendary Phillip Marlowe who knows there is no justice to be found on the streets of Los Angeles, there is an entry for February 19, 1938, that’s completely different from the other entries and comes under the strangely conspicuous heading, “Great Thought”:
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.2
All the world understands the language of beauty.1
Peter Sitte
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Epilogue
The quote is from a conversation with Peter Sitte and he has Joseph Haydn to thank for it.
The notebooks of Raymond Chandler was published in 1976 in New York by Frank MacShane.
The end of science by John Horgan was published in New York. The nature of space and time by Hawking and Penrose appeared in 1996 with Princeton.
Jonas, H. (1984). Das Prinzip Verantwortung (p. 392).
Hartmann, N. (1966). Ästhetik (p. 48).
The quotes by Joseph Brodsky are found in an essay in the 1994 volume appearing in the edition tertium (without editor) Das sichtbar Unsichtbare.
Brodsky, J. (1995). On grief and reason. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, p. 205.
The newly founded Hochschule Holzen (Holzen Institute) summarized its purpose in a “Holzener Manifest” that can be primarily attributed to Martin Rabe and composed together with Daniel Meynen and the author of this book. The manifest can be ordered from Holzen at the following address: Hochschule Holzen, Kirchstr. 8, D 79400 Kandern-Holzen; tel: +49–76 26–9 15 80 and fax: +49–76 26–91 58 23.
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Fischer, E.P. (1999). Epilogue. In: Beauty and the Beast. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6144-0_9
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