Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

• Quality
• Judgment
• Taste
• Pleasant

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• It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.

  

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• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

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• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

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• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

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• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

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• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

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• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

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• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

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• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

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• Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

  

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• I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.

  

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• The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.

  

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• I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.

  

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• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

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• I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

  

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• Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

  

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• It's true that there are younger people making films, and there are different kinds of films. This has created some attention in what's coming out of Greece, and people like to find a way to name this new ethnic cinema. It's not like there's a movement, or a common philosophy in making these films. They're just things that happened, and now people are paying attention to it.

  

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• The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.

  

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• Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Quality
  • Judgment
  • Taste