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“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.”

Ifs Men Character Faces Heaven Chance Habit Taste Elements

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this theres certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.”

Kind Taste Elements Abstract Filmmaking Existential Avant Garde

Author:J. C. Chandor

“I like horror, but I tend to like it as seasoning. I'd get very bored if I was told I had to write a horror novel. I'd love to write a novel with horror elements, but too much, and it doesn't taste of anything else.”

Ifs Writing Novel Too Much Taste Horror Elements Bored Seasoning

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.”

Art Civilization Taste Elements Western Discussion Confined Western Civilization High Art

Book:Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

Source: Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy

“I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.”

Actors Taste Elements Likes Jumping Good Taste

Author:Luke Ford

“Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.”

Individual Taste Elements Unique Soup Delicious Flavor Salad Contributing Adjectives

Book:On language

Source: On language

“Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity of criminals and artists. Pretextually, it was sort of a money bag thriller. But it was aggressively not what it seemed to be. It was kind of Duchamps.”

Firsts Kind Matter Film Artist Novel Crime Taste Elements Criminals Bags Similarity Thrillers

Author:William Monahan

“The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.”

Persons Together Taste Directors Elements Core Puzzles

Author:Andre Øvredal

“It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.”

Beauty Taste Elements Originals Monsters Conventional

Author:Alfred Jarry

“Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.”

Thinking World Light Together Sound Brain Grew Taste Elements Complicated Smell Dimensions Fabulous Woven Complicated Things

Author:Alan Watts