 | Otto Schlapp - Aesthetics - 1901 - 484 pages
...u. 268. certain conformity or relation between the object and the orgaus or faculties of the miud; and if that conformity did not really exist, the sentiment...exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. Auch für Hutcheson l), einen andern Lieblingsautor Kants, gab es keine objektive Schönheit, »denn... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - Ethnology - 1901 - 676 pages
...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 "... | |
 | Otto Schlapp - Aesthetics - 1901 - 488 pages
...Schönheit zu bemerken. s certain confonnity or relation between the object and the organs or t'aculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really...sentiment could never possibly have being. Beauty is rio quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. Auch für Hutcheson... | |
 | Otto Schlapp - Aesthetics - 1901 - 488 pages
...Taste, p. 273 u. 268. certain conformity or relation betweeu the object and the organs or faculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really exist, the sentimeut could never possibly have being. Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely... | |
 | J. Richardson Parke - Paraphilias - 1906 - 428 pages
...ideas of what constitutes it in either sex are by no means always similar. As Hume correctly says, "beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty;" and yet it is hard to make the enthusiastic young man believe that his Dulcinea can appear less beautiful... | |
 | Joseph Richardson Parke - Sex - 1909 - 504 pages
...ideas of what constitutes it in either sex are by no means always similar. As Hume correctly says, "beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists...them, and each mind perceives a different beauty;" and yet it is hard to make the enthusiastic young man believe that his Dulcinea can appear less beautiful... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1024 pages
...Kant, in developing his 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 contemplates them " (Essays, xxii.). , expression for aesthetic value in all its degrees. Yet it is better to keep the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1048 pages
...Kant, in developing his idea of beauty as subjective, was nrobably influenced by Hume, who wrote: " Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them " (Estoyi. jutii.). •On the nature of these qualities tee S. Witasek. Crundtift der oü{<*>. Ästhetik,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...object. It only marks a certain conformity or relation between the object and the organs or faculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really...never possibly have being. Beauty is no quality in jhjngs themselves ; it exists merely in th(T mindjwhi ch contemplates them ; and each mind perceives... | |
 | Katharine Mary Westaway - Education, Greek - 1922 - 264 pages
...phenomena on their own ground. Plutarch met the one and avoided the other. It has been well said that beauty is no quality in things themselves ; it exists merely in the mind that contemplates them. It is necessary to accept the relativity of aesthetic values, and Plutarch's... | |
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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. 
