 | David Hume - 1826 - Liczba stron: 602
...object. It only marks a certain conformity._or relation between the object and the organs ax-fkculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really...in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which_ contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. _.Qne person may even perceive... | |
 | 1843 - Liczba stron: 376
...is not a perception of the senses but of the mind. " Sweet " (he would say, as Mr. Hume has said of Beauty) " is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind that contemplates them." Each mind perceives a different sweet — one person may even be sensible... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - Liczba stron: 556
...Alison and oilier eminent writers on this subject might be stated in the language of Hume. ' Benuty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely...; and each mind perceives a different beauty : one 'biind perceives deformity where another is sensible of beauty ; and every individual ought to acquiesce... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1850 - Liczba stron: 552
...other eminent writers on this subject might be stated in the language of Hume. ' Beauty is noquality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind...; and each mind perceives a different beauty : one 11* mind perceives deformity where another is sensible of beauty ; and every individual ought to acquiesce... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 660
...per Annum m Advance. Thus Hume says, in his essay on the Standard of Taste, "Beauty is no quality of things themselves : it exists merely in the mind which...them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty." And so Dr. Reid, though in almost all his reasonings directly opposed to Hume, and though it may seem... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - Liczba stron: 312
...have seen the sun, neither can soul that has not become beautiful see beauty." Or, as Hume says, " Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty." The subjective theory, -vith numerous modifications, is held by Plato, Shaftesbury, Schelling, Coleridge,... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - Liczba stron: 584
...beautiful to the action of the mind itself, and to no other cause. This is stated by Hume, who says, " Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty." Among the advocates of this may be enumerated Hume, Schelling, Eastlake, Ruskin, Coleridge. 3. Objecto-subjective.... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1893 - Liczba stron: 394
...seen the sun, neither can soul that has not become beautiful see beauty." Or, as Hume says, '' Hcanty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely...contemplates them, and each mind perceives a different heanty.'' The subjective theory, with numerous modifications, is held by Plato, Shaftesbury, Schelling,... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1894 - Liczba stron: 678
...race, beauty stimulates passion, the ideas of what constitutes beauty vary indefinitely. As Hume says, "Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists...them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty." 4 A flat, retreating brow seems to white men to spoil what would otherwise be a pretty face ; but "... | |
 | Angeline P. Carey - 1895 - Liczba stron: 82
...beauty. The subjective 'theory maintains that beauty is in the nature or action of the soul. Hume says : "Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty." This theory is held by Plato, Coleridge, and Ruskin. The objective theory regards beauty as residing... | |
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. 
