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