Taste Quotes - Page 38

• Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.

  Joseph Chenier

  Delicate, Good Sense

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• Taste is, in general, considered as that faculty of the human mind by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is beautiful or sublime in the works of nature or art.

  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

  Beautiful, Art, Sublime

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• Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Special, Mosaics, Pieces

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• we shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

  Laura Riding

  Truth, Firsts, Speak

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• Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Husband, Party, Salad

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• I think bad taste should be a felony.

  Margo Kaufman

  Thinking, Hatred, Should

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• It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.

  Christopher McDowell

  Mother, Teacher, Garden

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• There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Average, Class

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

  Stendhal

  Bored, Sorrowful, Seems

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• I’ve found that God often lets us taste how sweet he is in our most bitter moments.

  Andy Mineo

  Sweet, Bitter, Moments

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2015

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• Truth is always in danger of being sacrificed on the altars of good taste and social stability.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Truth Is, Danger, Social

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

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• There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Powerful, Real, Essence

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• artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

  Alan Alda

  Sweet, Artist, Frustration

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• Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Party, Heart

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• Taste is so much more important than fashion.

  Hattie Carnegie

  Fashion, Important

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• The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste.
  But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.

  Erich Fromm

  Character, Differences, Confusion

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.52, Routledge

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• To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

  William Shakespeare

  Littles, Too Much, Sweetness

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. 70

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• The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Years, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.301

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• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
  leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

  Willa Cather

  Dark, People, House

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Attitude, Children, Thinking

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• My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.

  Gregory Maguire

  Jobs, New York, Ice Cream

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• The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Philosophy, Feel Better

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophical, Self, Color

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• Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Bears, Opinion

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• Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to existential psychoanalysis to compare and classify
  them. Ontology abandons us here; it has merely enabled us to determine the ultimate ends of human reality, its fundamental possibilities, and the value which haunts it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reality, Choices, Fundamentals

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1985). “Existentialism and Human Emotions”, Citadel Press

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