"When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object."

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Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

Frederick C. Beiser

#Doctrine Quotes #Delicacy Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.”

Source : Mary Astor (1968). “A Place Called Saturday”
“Progressively thinking biologists, both in our country and abroad, saw in Darwinism the only right road to the further development of scientific biology.”

Source : Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”
“Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.”
“Where there is a question of economy, I prefer privation.”
“Thereâ€™s a place inside of you where you can retreat and enjoy perfect stillness.”
“Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Mar 11, 2012
“You raze the old to raise the new.”
“The thing I love about diving is the flowing feeling. I like a sport where the whole point is to move as little as humanly possible so your air supply will last longer. That's my kind of sport. Where the amount of effort spent is absolutely minimal.”

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