Beauty Quotes by David Hume

“Beauty in things exists in the mind that contemplates them.”

— David Hume

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

— David Hume

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and…

— David Hume

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with…

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such…

— David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by…

— David Hume

Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,…

— David Hume

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

— David Hume

“But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease…

— David Hume

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations…

— David Hume

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of…

— David Hume

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign…

— David Hume

“A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that…

— David Hume

But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to…

— David Hume

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

— David Hume

But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into…

— David Hume

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived…

— David Hume