Quotes by Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a st — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a st — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions. — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible — Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful