“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.” MenMayArtImportantUseFeelingsProblemFormCoursesLiteratureEmotionMoralStyleBrokenTasteCapableArt IsTemptationChiefsInnocenceConsiderationGood ManDistractionAestheticTrafficSoberSeductionPuritanAmerican LiteratureGusto Book:Prejudices Second Series Source: Prejudices Second Series
“Homosexual feelings are controllable. Perhaps there is an inclination or susceptibility to such feelings that is a reality for some and not a reality for others. But out of such susceptibilities come feelings, and feelings are controllable. If we cater to the feelings, they increase the power of the temptation. If we yield to the temptation, we have committed sinful behavior. That pattern is the same for a person that covets someone else's property and has a strong temptation to steal. It's the same for a person that develops a taste for alcohol.” IfsPersonsFeelingsRealityStrongTasteBehaviorIncreasePropertyPatternsCommittedAlcoholStealingTemptationYieldHomosexualInclinationSusceptibility Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“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.” KnowsHeartReasonFormMoralSharePlanetsSweetTasteHorrorTemptationLove LifeCarrieParadoxJungleOur PlanetTerrain Book:A Natural History of the Senses Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“The most temptation I'd experienced had been with Tomas, the Senate's spy who had been feeding off me without permission, and Mircea, who was probably plotting some nefarious scheme. I have no taste in men.” MenTasteTemptationSenateSchemesPermissionFeedingSpy Book:Touch the Dark Source: Touch the Dark
“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.” StillsBitsTasteMouthsOriginalsRemainsTemptationApples Book:Dracula Source: Dracula