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Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche argues that beauty and ugliness do not exist independently in the world but are qualities assigned by humans based on their perceptions. He claims that aesthetic judgment is fundamentally tied to human nature, with beauty reflecting human creativity and ugliness reflecting human decay or degeneration.

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