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“We have the possibility of being far removed from what we are, of beginning to taste it and feel it. That is direct knowledge. That is truth. Anything else is mere words.”

Inspirational Feels Possibility Buddhism Taste Direct Mere

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.”

Ifs Men Feelings Would Be Genius Taste Mere Critics

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.”

People Needs Use Order Powerful Power Effects Taste Mere Invisible Most Powerful Volume Good Taste Seducing Clumsy Impeccable True Power Coerce Moguls Blowhards

Author:Lynda Obst

“Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.”

Thinking Hate Literature Causes Common Principles Taste Mere

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.”

Ifs Kind May Persons Said Moments Age Dies Beauty Objects Expression Flower Taste Shining Mere Old Age Features Maturity Sentiments Fades Literal Refined

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.”

Matter Character Differences Serious Theory Taste Consequence Importance Regard Fundamentals Mere Confusion Ethical Preference Subjective Temperament

Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

“If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.”

Ifs World Body Language Principles Influence This World Taste Mere Active Seeds Your Body Temper Persuasion Contagion Pestilence

Book:Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

Source: Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc

“An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.”

Knows Want Mind Soul White Rooms Taste Music Is Mere Exquisite Englishmen Evasion English Music

Book:A future for English music, and other lectures

Source: A future for English music, and other lectures

“A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.”

Source: The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

“Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.”

Mind Art Inspiration Beautiful Technology Building Taste Mere Works Of Art Organisms Committees Idiosyncrasies Best Technology

Book:1949-1959

Source: 1949-1959

“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.”

Sometimes Language Streets Communication Taste Judgment Luck Mere Crafts Sheer Usage Taste And Judgment

Book:The SECOND TREE from the CORNER

Source: The SECOND TREE from the CORNER

“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

Ends Eye Lasts Stage Strange Taste Scene Mere Teeth Old Age Oblivion You Like It Childishness Stage Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?”

Should Kind Doe Moving Doors Particular Pride Please Taste Conscience Asking Mere Paint Dues Doctrine Holiness Dislike Keepers Reluctance True Ones

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity