“A garden that one makes oneself becomes associated with one’s personal history and that of one’s friends, interwoven with one’s tastes, preferences and character and constitutes a sort of unwritten autobiography.” CharacterTasteGardenOneselfAutobiographyPreferenceUnwrittenPersonal History Book:The Garden That I Love Source: The Garden That I Love
“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.” FriendshipPerfectTasteAccountsPreferenceInclinationPerfect Friendship Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“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.” MatterCharacterDifferencesSeriousTheoryTasteConsequenceImportanceRegardFundamentalsMereConfusionEthicalPreferenceSubjectiveTemperament Book:Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics Source: Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics
“The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.” SelfChoicesColorBearsSelf LoveTastePhilosophicalInspiredPhilosopherIndifferenceReasoningPreferenceRelishFondnessPalate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences our consumer tastes and our preference for high-paying jobs, but it also alters our capacity to pray, the nature of our prayers, and the ways in which religious tutelage instructs our values.” ThinkingWayWellsJobsValuesReligiousPrayerInfluenceDangerPrayingTasteCapacityConsumersMaterialismConsumerismPreferenceOur PrayersOverconsumptionTutelage Author:Robert Wuthnow
“The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.” IfsMenChildrenHas BeensCharacterFactsNaturalTasteSakeProofFleshAll TimeIndifferenceMeatVegetablesPreferenceUnnatural Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Nowadays nobody bothers, and it is considered in slightly bad taste to even raise the question of God's existence. Matters of religion are like matters of sexual preference: they are not discussed in public, and even the abstract questions are discussed only by bores.” MatterExistenceTasteRaisesBotherAbstractBoresPreferenceBad Taste Author:John Searle