Robert Southey Quotes

To understand bad taste one must have very good taste.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

The French have got taste.

I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

There are some readers who have never read an essay on taste; and if they take my advice they never will, for they can no more improve their taste by so doing than they could improve their appetite or digestion by studying a cookery-book.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.