“Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.” GivingKindCreativeStyleGeniusTasteNotesFollyFacultySublimeGiving Back Author:Bill Vaughan
“Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsMomentsCareActionSexRegretTasteDon't CareLustFollyTaoismStomachStableMaking Love Author:Zicheng Hong
“Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.” LiteratureDesignGeniusTastePreservesFollySublimeGood SenseBad Taste Author:Alexander Pope
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” PeopleKnowsWantStillsBookStoriesDreamLyingStarsBloodTeachingSweetTasteMadnessPleasantFollyIndividualismHarmoniousBewilderment Book:Demian: A Dual-Language Book Source: Demian: A Dual-Language Book