Everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence: he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever a man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ‘ugly’. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.” - Frederich Nietzsche
Everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence: he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever a man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ‘ugly’. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.” - Frederich Nietzsche
Nobody understood the mess we were about to get into in the 20th century like Nietzsche