“To patronize the faculty of taste is to patronize oneself. For taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response.” HumansTasteResponseOneselfFaculty Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” PeopleHumansWellsKindIdeasEmotionMoralityTasteResponseVisuals Author:Susan Sontag
“I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.” ThinkingBookDoneCharacterOpinionWrittenReaderTasteResponseDetailsScalesPlotCompleting Author:Joe Abercrombie
“The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.” WorldWantFeelsSpiritualFormFoundNiceMaterialsHigherTasteResponsePeacefulBlissMaterial WorldChantingSpiritual Happiness Author:George Harrison
“The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.” HumansPersonsWarPoliticalJoyHumanityCommunityUnitedSecretShareBrotherTasteDespairEternalSolutionsHatredPrejudiceResponseInjusticeKingdomsBrothers And SistersLimitlessKingdom Of God Author:Jean Vanier