Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself more or less with all our passions.
Edmund Burke
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part I, Section I, “Novelty”; Read complete “Novelty” section and edition title (Works, volume I, 1887). Closing observation follows Burke’s qualification that curiosity alone is fleeting and requires other powers and
- A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part I, Section I, “Novelty”
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