A Quote by Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.
The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.
There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
You know, life hasn't changed that much for me. It's just, everything's gotten a little nicer. I drive a nicer car. I live in a nicer house.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
My mom would say I'm a good kid... but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they'd taught me, and just trying to think for myself.
taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.
A person with taste is merely one who can recognize the greatest beauty in the simplest things.
My dad used to get to the nastiest letters. But somebody had to take the time to type it, stamp it, send it to him, send it to the radio station. And I mean nasty stuff. It's not like nasty people with nasty opinions just popped up out of nowhere.
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in the same way as things are used. In the context of a civilization of use, woman can become an object for man, children a hindrance to parents, the family an institution obstructing the freedom of its members.
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