“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.” LooksMayEyePainVisionSeeingInformationObjectsSourcePerspectiveTasteMeetingsHearingSmellSensesTemperature Author:Richard Gregory
“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.” PeopleIfsWritingSoulSometimesHardEnoughHappensJoyCertainReadingUnderstandingVoiceBrainSourceTasteEatingHard TimesUnbelievableCandyEnough TimeForksTuningReading Or Writing Author:David Foster Wallace
“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.” PerfectPleasureMoralMaterialsSourceTastePerfectionAttractivePurityFacultyReceivingOar Author:John Ruskin
“The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source.” KnowsMenSoulFallKnownSourceReturnTasteDisasterSensesAriseYearningTheologianGod ImageNature Of Man Book:The Knowledge of the Holy Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.” MenChoicesFlowerSourceTasteBlessingSpringMouthsFruitCupsAutumnScentNile Book:Selected poetry and prose Source: Selected poetry and prose