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“I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.”

Should Believe Art Spiritual Used Values House I Believe Design Fine Taste Garden Architect Inclination Fine Arts Spiritual Values

Author:Luis Barragan

“I have no sympathy whatever with those who would grudge our workmen and our common people the very highest acquisitions which their taste or their time or their inclination would lead them to realize.”

People Realizing Common Education Taste Highest Inclination Acquisition Grudge Workmen No Sympathy

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D.

“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.”

Friendship Perfect Taste Accounts Preference Inclination Perfect Friendship

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“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.”

Humans Ends Reality Certain Values Choices Possibility Taste Ultimate Fundamentals Determine Compare Abandon Existential Inclination Psychoanalysis Ontology

Book:Existentialism and Human Emotions

Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions

“I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.”

Thinking Way Taste Behave Being Yourself Inclination Indulge

Book:The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.”

Ifs Persons Feelings Reality Strong Taste Behavior Increase Property Patterns Committed Alcohol Stealing Temptation Yield Homosexual Inclination Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Taste may change, but inclination never.”

May Taste Inclination

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld