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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

Positive, Beauty, Philosophical

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume

Beauty, Mind, Quality

'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

Beauty, Philosophical, Moral

David Hume (1772). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An. inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.183

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

David Hume

Beauty, Reflection, Mind

David Hume Quotes about Beauty

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