David Hume — "Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which co…"
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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Of the Standard of Taste (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
Date: 1757
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