111 Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

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.