Beauty can be so subjective that there is an age-old debate among philosophers quoting Rene Descartes' "I think, therefore I am” versus George Berkeley's "To be is to be perceived.”. (Newton Lee)

Beauty can be so subjective that there is an age-old debate among philosophers quoting Rene Descartes' "I think, therefore I am” versus George Berkeley's "To be is to be perceived.”.

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