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“People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.”

People Art Body Lying Pleasure Objects Activity Eating Aim Cease Nourishment Meaning Of Art

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body.”

Body Dues Sufficient Stomach Quantity Nourishment

Book:The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin

“Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.”

Humans Reason Body Knowledge Soil Human Body Nourishment

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.”

Source: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book