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" 1: There are at least six of them: Sight, which embraces space itself, and tells us by means of light of the existence of the objects which surround us, and of their colors. Hearing, which absorbs through the air the vibrations caused by agreeably resonant or merely noisy bodies. Smell, by means of which we savor all odorous things. Taste, by which we appreciate whatever is palatable or only edible. Touch, by which we are made aware of the surfaces and the textures of objects. Finally physical desire, which draws the two sexes together so that they may procreate. "
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
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" Mindamellett, jól megfontolva a dolgot, arra a meggyőződésre jutunk, hogy összes érzékeink közül az ízlésnek köszönhetjük a legtöbb élvezetünket:
1. Mert az evés élvezete az egyetlen, amelyet nem követ fáradtság, föltéve, hogy mérsékletesen élünk vele.
2. Mert minden időszakban, mindegyik életkorban, minden életföltétel közepett részünk van benne.
3. Mert szükségképen mindennapos élvezet, s huszonnégy óra alatt, egészségünknek minden kára nélkül, megismételhető kétszer, háromszor is.
4. Mert együtt járhat más élvezeteinkkel, másfelől vigasztalásunkra van, ha más örömünk nincsen.
5. Mert benyomásai elég tartósak s meglehetős részben akaratunktól függenek.
6. Végre, mert evés közben valami különös, meghatározhatatlan jólétet érzünk, ami bizonyára annak ösztönszerű érzéséből ered, hogy ekképen helyrehozzuk az életfolyamat okozta veszteséget s meghosszabbítjuk létünket. "
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
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" Agreeable guests should be sought for among those who have this appearance. They receive all that is offered them, eat slowly, and taste advisedly. They do not seek to leave places too quickly where they have been kindly received. They are always in for all the evening, for they know all games, and all that is neccessary for a gastronomical soiree. Those, on the contrary, to whom nature has refused a desire for the gratifications of taste, have a long nose and face. Whatever be their statures, the face seems out of order. Their hair is dark and flat, and they have no embonpoint. They invented pantaloons. "
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
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" These senses, our favorites, are far from being perfect, and I will not pause to prove it. I will only observe, that that ethereal sense--sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. By means of spectacles the eye, so to say, escapes from the decay of age, which troubles almost all the other organs. The telescope has discovered stars hitherto unknown and inaccessible to all our means of mensuration; it has penetrated distances so great, that luminous and necessarily immense bodies present themselves to us only like nebulous and almost imperceptible spots. "
― Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin , The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
