"Why is taste, the crudest of our senses,……" — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?"
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Crudest Quotes
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic…
— R C Sproul
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Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been…
— Robert Graves
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Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and…
— Steven Saylor
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Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always…
— John Ralston Saul
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If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
— Adolf Hitler
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There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces…
— Asger Jorn
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Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free…
— Tom Robbins
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It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry…
— Theodor Adorno
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Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively,…
— Albert Camus
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