A Quote by Baltasar Gracian
You can cultivate taste, as you can the intellect. Full understanding whets the appetite and desire, and, later, sharpens the enjoyment of possession.
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Because there is a force that wants you to realize your Personal Legend; it whets your appetite with a taste of success
There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire... You are therefore properly the king of desire. ...equal
in this to the greatest kings of the earth... It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.
One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others.
Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God; it whets our appetite.
Furthermore I will just have to see what the future will bring me. But a change of food whets the appetite.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
To reach satisfaction in all
desire its possession in nothing,
To come to the knowledge of all
desire the knowledge of nothing.
To come to possess all
desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all
desire to be nothing.
To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
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