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Quotation from Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
“For beauty, my Phaedrus, beauty alone is both lovely and visible at once; it is, mark me, the only form of the spiritual which we can receive through the senses.”
Death in Venice, Chapter IV, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925)
Watching Tadzio on the beach, Aschenbach recalls Socrates teaching Phaedrus about beauty.
Citation: "For beauty, my Phaedrus, beauty alone is both lovely and visible at once; it is, mark me, the only form of the spiritual which we can receive through the senses." — Thomas Mann, Death in Venice, Chapter IV, trans. Kenneth Burke (1925). (id mann-death-in-venice-q3)
Portrait: Thomas Mann 1929, Nobel Foundation, Public domain.
