...methods of 4000 years or more in the making. Beauty is no quality in things themselves [says Hume]. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. The savage lady in the heart of Africa cuts her skin with sharp shells and rubs black paint into the...

...attention among thinkers of note until it was definitely formulated by David Hume 1 in his statement that " Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Hume's interests lay, however, in other than aesthetic directions ; he therefore did not develop this...

...among thinkers of note until it was definitely formulated by David Hume 1 in his statement that V' Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them/y Hume's interests lay, however, in other than aesthetic directions ; he therefore did not develop...

...d'une nature tendre et délicate, et exigent une tion between the object and the organs or faculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really exist, the sentiment could never possibly have a being. Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the muni winch contemplates...

...the opposite of these. 5> j^^^f (^••^P^^^^r^^V f^^^f^r CHAPTER XXIII TOLSTOY'S INFECTION THEORY Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — Hume. IT is strange that speculations upon the arts should so rarely have begun from the most obvious...

...experience by our attitude towards and relation to the object whose beauty impresses us. As Hume said : ' Beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.'1 There are some people who consider such a description as one of opprobrium, because of a certain...

...It was clearly stated by David Hume in his essay " Of the Standard of Taste," in which he says : " Beauty is no quality in things themselves : It exists...them ; and each mind perceives a different beauty." m This theory is worked out consistently in the light of modern psychology by Mr. HR Marshall122. It...

...«Kant, in developping bis idea of beauty as subjective, was probably influenced by Hume, who wrote: «Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplales thern.» (Essaya, XXII.) sentido interno natural característico de Shaftesbury y de Hutcheson....

...nourishes itself." — Plato. "For where there is love of man, there is also love of art." — Hippocrates. "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; each mind perceives a different beauty." — Hume. "There aren't 12,000 people in the world who understand...

...(1757) he came to apply radical empiricism to the question. "All sentiment is right," he asserts boldly. "Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them." Taste and literary opinions, one might conclude, are purely subjective. But Hume rejects this consequence...