A Quote by Pierre Bourdieu

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Pierre Bourdieu

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Taste

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Pierre Bourdieu
French - Sociologist
August 1, 1930 - January 23, 2002

A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.

Peter Medawar

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alan Jay Lerner

I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.

Yvonne Strahovski

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.

Edward Brooke

Obviously it's always special having that first championship, but when you can go out and you're a car to beat every week, I think that's what classifies a great year.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

Andrew Neil

If you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average person and be exceptional.

Donald Trump

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

Jordan Peterson

One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

Marvin J. Ashton

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.

Susan Sontag

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

Marcel Duchamp

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Just as the great oceans have but one taste, the taste of salt, so too there is but one taste fundamental to all true teachings of the way, and this is the taste of freedom.