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| 0f69f9e | The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 0601ae4 | The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 7c0f7b7 | beauty is an ultimate value--something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 97b6406 | Beauty is not the source of disinterested pleasure, but simply the object of a universal interest: the interest that we have in beauty, and in the pleasure that beauty brings. | Roger Scruton | ||
| f472171 | Many people under the influence of science, and particularly neuro-nonsense, will say the sacred is an old concept, it's just a hangover, but you can easily see that's not so, because everyone has a sense of desecration: there are things everybody values which, when they are spoiled are not just moved or destroyed, they are desecrated. Something that is vital not just to you but the world. People have this sense when they see their towns pu.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| fb78f6e | Its true that we learn a lot from science about how we function but there's a danger in thinking knowledge of how we function is the full account of what we are. If you're a chemist who is really interested in the optical properties of certain pigments you could analyse the Mona Lisa and describe it completely but you would never have mentioned the face, which is the meaning of this thing. In that way a neuroscientist can put together an en.. | Roger Scruton | ||
| 71e2f1d | A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative', is asking you not to believe him. So don't. | Roger Scruton | ||
| fabbde3 | Mercy is Truth clothed; judgment is Truth naked. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| cff0b25 | Those who know, do not say; those who say, do not know. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| ddd1f19 | Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. | eating food food-writing fresh garlic kitchen | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 31b528a | Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot. | cooking food food-writing preparation ready | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 1e29142 | Skills can be taught. Character you either have or don't have. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a885b3e | I have since found that almost everybody in the meat business is funny --just as almost everyone in the fish business is not. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b8c6361 | Demi-glace. There are a lot of ways to make demi-glace, but I recommend you simply take your already reduced meat stock, add some red wine, toss in some shallots and fresh thyme and a bay leaf and peppercorns, and slowly, slowly simmer it and reduce it again until it coats a spoon. Strain. Freeze this stuff in an ice-cube tray, pop out a cube or two as needed, and you are in business -- you can rule the world. And remember, when making a sa.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| affdc18 | Cooking is a craft, I like to think, and a good cook is a craftsman -- not an artist. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| ff3a3ab | back-scratching of liquor licenses, the netherworld of trash removal, linen, grease disposal. And with every dime you've got tied up in your new place, suddenly the drains in your prep kitchen are backing up with raw sewage, pushing hundreds of gallons of impacted crap into your dining room; your coke-addled chef just called that Asian waitress who's working her way through law school a chink, which ensures your presence in court for the ne.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 77dc1c8 | My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword -- that should tell you all you need to know. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 5a3c616 | There's that old joke, I've referred to it before, where the guy at the bar asks the girl if she'd fuck him for a million dollars--and she thinks about it and finally replies, "Well, I guess for a million dollars, yeah..." At which point he quickly offers her a dollar for the same service. "Fuck you!" she says, declining angrily. "You think I'd fuck you for a dollar? What do you think I am?" To which the guy says, "Well ... we've already es.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b9ec5ff | I can't imagine a better example of Things To Be Wary Of in the food department than bargain sushi. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 90a8ed5 | And I had my first oyster. Now, this was a truly significant event. I remember it like I remember losing my virginity -- and in many ways, more fondly. August | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| a5e8dc3 | No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American. The Ecuadorian, Mexican, Dominican and Salvadorian cooks I've worked with over the years make most CIA-educated white boys look like clumsy, sniveling little punks. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b3b1575 | There was another inspiring moment: a rough, choppy, moonlit night on the water, and the Dreadnaught's manager looked out the window suddenly to spy thousands of tiny baitfish breaking the surface, rushing frantically toward shore. He knew what that meant, as did everyone else in town with a boat, a gaff and a loaf of Wonder bread to use as bait: the stripers were running! Thousands of the highly prized, relatively expensive striped bass we.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 95573dd | I like anyone who cooks with pride and who likes what they're doing, who's cooking with something resembling love and pride, even if they're not cooking particularly well. I think they're on the side of the angels. | David Blum | ||
| 10cf959 | The bartender is Irish. Jumped a student visa about ten years ago but nothing for him to worry about. The cook, though, is Mexican. Some poor bastard at ten dollars an hour--and probably has to wash the dishes, too. La Migra take notice of his immigration status--they catch sight of his bowl cut on the way home to Queens and he'll have a problem. He looks different than the Irish and the Canadians--and he's got Lou Dobbs calling specificall.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| b4f45cf | The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. | David Blum | ||
| 23d8df0 | Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago, garlic that has been tragically smashed through one of those abominations, the garlic press, are all disgusting. Please, treat your garlic with respect. | crime delicious food food-writing garlic kitchen | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 1f3178a | For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 3fe0da0 | I believe I should be able to treat my hamburger like food, not like infectious fucking medical waste. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 8f557f5 | Let me stress that again: heavyweight. A thin-bottomed saucepan is useless for anything. I don't care if it's bonded with copper, hand-rubbed by virgins, or fashioned from the same material they built the stealth bomber out of. If you like scorched sauces, carbonized chicken, pasta that sticks to the bottom of the pot, burnt breadcrumbs, then be my guest. A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down har.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 53eb31f | As well, there's the age-old syndrome common to fans of musicians with passionate and discerning cult followings. When the objects of adulation are crass enough to become popular, they quickly become a case of "used to be good." -- | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 9e9ef2e | A loud, egotistical, one-note asshole who's been cruising on the reputation of one obnoxious, over-testosteroned book for way too long and who should just shut the fuck up. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 4cf56fd | The life of the cook was a life of adventure, looting, pillaging and rock-and-rolling through life with a carefree disregard for all conventional morality. It looked pretty damn good to me on the other side of the line. | cook cook-s-life cooking food food-writing kitchen | Anthony Bourdain | |
| 8801725 | The Ecuadorian, Mexican, Dominican and Salvadorian cooks I've worked with over the years make most CIA-educated white boys look like clumsy, sniveling little punks. In | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 6445660 | Spend any time in the real Italy, however, and you quickly realize that Italians don't really pick grapes much anymore, and they certainly don't stomp them either. They don't pick tomatoes--or olives--and they don't shear their sheep. Their tomatoes and olives are picked largely by underpaid Africans and Eastern Europeans, seasonal hires, brought in for that purpose--who are then demonized and complained about for the rest of the year. (Exc.. | Anthony Bourdain | ||
| 33eb27d | I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. | peter-kreeft philosophy poetry poets sea water | Peter Kreeft | |
| 545a6d9 | The universal sin Saint Paul pinpoints in Romans 1:18 is to suppress the truth. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| bd92a2e | Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| c39ba67 | Marriage is earth's closest image for Heaven because it is all or nothing, forever - a leap of faith. | Peter Kreeft | ||
| fa42b55 | Three reasons God commands us to pray correlate to our three deepest needs, the fundamental needs of the three powers of our soul: . 'The true, the good, and the beautiful' are the three things we need and love the most, because they are the three attributes of God. | god prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 802949e | Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us. | prayer | Peter Kreeft | |
| 440fc5f | Catholics have seldom had the difficulties and embarrassments many Protestants have had about creation vs. evolution. Ever since Augustine, they have interpreted Genesis' "days" non-literally." | Peter Kreeft | ||
| 8838feb | It was always pleasant crossing bridges in Paris. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 279a1e0 | In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognised by clearing away "prejudice" or burrowing down to previously hidden depths but, rather, as a goal to be achieved. It is to be achieved not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers. Solidarity is not discovered by reflection but created. It is created by increasing our sensitivity to the particular details of th.. | Richard M. Rorty | ||
| 29666d4 | If we look to people who make no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for tyrants or unjust wars, we shall have few heroes and heroines | purity the-left | Richard M. Rorty |