Don't <i>for heaven's sake</i>, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

an inner process stands in need of outward criteria

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

The usual way of looking at things sees objects as it were from the midst of them, the view sub specie aeternitatis from outside.

In such a way that they have the whole world as background.