"Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with themâ€”touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations."

-- Judith Jones

#Color Quotes #Smell Quotes #Raw Materials Quotes

“To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.”

Source : "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Nine: Main Street...Bay Street (p. 195), 1985.
“Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impregnated with ressentiment. The establishment of "criteria" for testing the correctness of opinions then becomes the most important task. Genuine and fruitful criticism judges all opinions with reference to the object itself. Ressentiment criticism, on the contrary, accepts no "object" that has not stood the test of criticism”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.132, University of Chicago Press
“Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.”
“I rise to oppose the Central American Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, the latest expression of the disastrous trade policies of this administration which are, unfortunately, a continuation of the disastrous trade policies of previous administrations.”
“He who mounts a wild elephant goes where the elephant goes.”
“Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.”
“In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the sole exception of specialists in the field, virtually everyone senses that anything which offers less than this passion play remains philosophically trivial. Cultural anthropologists suggest the appealing term 'deep play' for the comprehensively absorbing preoccupations of human beings. From the perspective of a theory of the practising life we would add: the deep plays are those which are moved by the heights.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.24, John Wiley & Sons
“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”

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