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Single Idea 12925

[filed under theme 21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty ]

Full Idea

The more one is familiar with things, the more beautiful one finds them.

Gist of Idea

Beauty increases with familiarity

Source

Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Antoine Arnauld [1686], 1688.01.4/14)

Book Ref

Leibniz,Gottfried: 'The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence', ed/tr. Mason,HT/Parkinson,GHR [Manchester UP 1967], p.171


A Reaction

This is always the reply given to those who say that science kills our sense of beauty. The first step in aesthetic life is certainly to really really pay attention to things.