“You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.” ThinkingMemoriesTastePerceptionBe GoodSensesMemorableMealsLinkedOften IsMost Memorable Author:Heston Blumenthal
“We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.” LostMemoriesTasteMaturityGrievingRejoice Book:Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
“Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of the moment and what people will like right now; the idea is to somehow keep yourself in the public memory so that as taste evolves it will eventually come to embrace your thing. So, it's about writing to be remembered rather than writing to be liked.” PeopleWritingIdeasMomentsCultureMemoriesTasteRight NowEmbraceAppealsEvolveRememberedAestheticCulture ChangeChanges Over Time Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.” MemoriesPleasureAnimalLevelsSunBloodTasteDrawsCrueltyInstantLeapPreyMarrow Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell
“Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.” GivingMindChildrenBookFactsScienceCoursesMemoriesMistakeEducationOughtTasteWorshipOppositesConfusionVarietyDryInstructionStrainEndeavourCultivatingGreat MistakesBook Learning Author:John Lubbock