Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
Beauty Is No Quality In Things Themselves. It Merely Exists In The Mind Which Contemplates Them.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Quotations By Famous People
Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It merely exists in the mind
which contemplates them.
David Hume [1757]
Related:
God helps them that help themselves.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757...
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. -- David Hume
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. -- David Hume (1711-1776)
The human race never solves any of its problems. It merely outlives them. -- David Gerrold
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. -- Thomas Carlyle
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind
it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease....
Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature must produce a man.
-- David Hume, "Essays: The Epicurean," 15...
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted.
Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. -- Hans Margoliu...