The æsthete who assumes an apocalyptic pose is an especially flagrant instance of the huddling together of incompatible desires.
My quarrel is only with the æsthete who assumes an apocalyptic pose and gives forth as a profound philosophy what is at best only a holiday or week-end view of existence.
The æsthete would look on his dream as a substitute for the actual, and at the same time convert the actual into a dream.
We should not hesitate to say that beauty loses most of its meaning when divorced from ethics even though every æsthete in the world should arise and denounce us as philistines.
As a matter of fact the pretension of the æsthete to have a purely personal vision of beauty and then treat as a philistine every one who does not accept it, is intolerable.
The æsthete is plainly moving in an opposite direction; he is becoming more and more openly a votary of the god Whirl.
But what the æsthete obviously wishes to prove to us is, that we may be Philistines and at the same time men of culture.
Indeed, a lapse of this sort occurred but a short while ago, to a well-known æsthete of the Hegelian school of reasoning.
The Assessor in Stadierne judges Aladdin exactly as he is judged by the Æsthete in Enten-Eller: "What makes Aladdin so great is the strength of his desire.
The voice of the æsthete is heard in the land, and catastrophe is upon us.
And so he blooms into an æsthete of his own order.
The æsthete leads at best a parasite, artistic life, dogged always by death and corruption.
We can now, I think, understand the difference between the artist and true lover of art on the one hand, and the mere æsthete on the other.
Now the æsthete tries to make his whole attitude artistic--that is, contemplative.
The æsthete is no more released from his own desires than the practical man, and he is without the practical man's healthy outlet in action.
The æsthete does not produce, or, if he produces, his work is thin and scanty.
The truth is, Tennyson, with all his rhetoric and with all his prosaic Victorian opinions, was an æsthete in the immortal part of him no less than were Rossetti and Swinburne.
The æsthete of to-day, however, will look kindly on adultery, but show all the harshness of a Pilgrim Father in his condemnation of a split infinitive.
It is useless for the æsthete (or any other anarchist) to urge the isolated individuality of the artist, apart from his attitude to his age.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sthete" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
