Best taste & moral Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.”

Source: Some of the

“A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.”

Men Character Moral Judging Taste Sentiments Criteria Penmanship

Author:Bill Vaughan

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.”

People May Mean Persons Two Ends Grows Moral Security Expression Pride Goes On Habit Taste Noble Love Each Other

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.”

People Humans Art Moral Influence Habit Taste Ignorant Innocent Tendencies Beneficial Refining Elevating

Author:James F. Cooper

“In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.”

Writing May Sometimes Moral Mankind Taste Judgment Weak Unions Faults Excellence Combination Merit Disgusting Transcendent

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, with Murphy's essay, ed. by R. Lynam

“The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.”

Should Moral Taste Journalism Journalist Publishing

Author:William C. Bryant

“Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.”

Mean Turns Evil Force Pleasure Moral Virtue Taste Importance Vices Regulation Elegance

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.”

Perfect Pleasure Moral Materials Source Taste Perfection Attractive Purity Faculty Receiving Oar

Author:John Ruskin

“If it were only that people have diversities of taste, that is reason enough for not attempting to shape them all after one model. But different persons also require different conditions for their spiritual development, and can no more exist healthily in the same moral, than all the varieties of plants can in the same physical, atmosphere and climate.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style; he is even capable of something approaching a purely aesthetic emotion. But he fears this aesthetic emotion as an insinuating distraction from his chief business in life: the sober consideration of the all-important problem of conduct. Art is a temptation, a seduction, a Lorelei, and the Good Man may safely have traffic with it when it is broken to moral uses--in other words, when its innocence is pumped out of it, and it is purged of gusto.”

Source: Prejudices Second Series

“The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.”

Natural Attitude Moral Dangerous Danger Taste Degrees Judgment Intellectual Conscious Increase Monsters Unconscious Aesthetic Entity

Book:The practice of psychotherapy

Source: The practice of psychotherapy

“No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know.”

Knows Should Writing Years Has Beens Play Moral Five Stage Fine Taste Suits Useless Thirty Five Years

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”

Humans Whole Bits Difficult Moral Pieces Special Taste Workshops Mosaics Carpentry

Author:Eliza Lynn Linton

“Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.”

Understanding Moral Objects Taste Criticism Sentiments

Book:And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

Source: And the human understanding. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. Appendix. The natural history of religion

“I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.”

Thinking Should Moral Issues Taste Moral Issues

Author:Louis Menand

“The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.”

Knows Believe Moral Struggle Victory Taste Sticks Pity Necks Thrill Moral Struggle

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

Men Common Moral Courage Taste Common Sense Originality Good Taste Moral Courage

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.”

Lines Responsibility Moral Fine Taste Censorship Good Taste Fine Lines Moral Responsibility

Author:Steven Spielberg

“We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.”

Needs Sometimes Matter Moments Running Order Moral Taste Pure Solitude No Matter What Edges Holiday Hardship Compelled Hazards Aimlessness

Author:George Santayana

“In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that rocky moral terrain, what makes the horror palatable, and the paradox we could not defend by reason melts into a jungle of sweet temptations.”

Knows Heart Reason Form Moral Share Planets Sweet Taste Horror Temptation Love Life Carrie Paradox Jungle Our Planet Terrain

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

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