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Full Idea
Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind.
Gist of Idea
Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind
Source
John Locke (Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed) [1694], 4.03.20)
Book Ref
Locke,John: 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', ed/tr. Nidditch,P.H. [OUP 1979], p.552
A Reaction
This is historically interesting, if we ask whether anyone in the centuries preceding Locke would ever have written such a remark. A deep historical question is why the value of pure truth went up so sharply in the early Enlightenment.