Quote by David Hume
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. - Dav

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. – David Hume

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. – David Hume

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. – David Hume

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. – David Hume

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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. – Marcus V. Pollio

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The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors. – Lee Scott

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Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. – Miuccia Prada

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. – Milan Kundera

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Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. – Francis Bacon

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Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. – Terri Guillemets, 2002

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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades

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