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Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays QUOTES

Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays QUOTES

1 " 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 , Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

2 " All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard. "

― David Hume , Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

3 " A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that reason pronounced a deformity; as the most finished object with which we are acquainted is naturally supposed to have reached the pinnacle of perfection, and to be entitled to the highest applause. "

― David Hume , Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays