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 Reference
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.