Abstract Quote by Georges Clemenceau

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

— Robert Nelson

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they…

— Kenny Smith

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

— Adam Gopnik

The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American…

— Julius Evola

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

— Jonathan Swift

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

— Lionel Trilling

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

— Jacque Fresco

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

— Ngaio Marsh

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

— Edith Wharton

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

— Honore de Balzac

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

— Jacques Maritain

We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

— Ralph Peters