Quote by David Hume
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perc

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

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. – 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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For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression. – Vladimir Kramnik

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

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Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk

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When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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