“ Beauty hath usually been said to consist in certain proportions of parts. On considering the matter, I have great reason to doubt, whether beauty be at all an idea belonging to proportion. ”
Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation
Author | Edmund Burke |
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Source | A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful |
Topic | beauty reason |
Date | 1757 |
Language | English |
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