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Daily Food Quote: Mahatma Gandhi on Hunger and Eating

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Daily Food Quote: Mahatma Gandhi on Hunger and Eating

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.–Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as “Mahatma Gandhi,” was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India. He studied law and became a defender of Indian rights both in India and South Africa, where he lived and worked for some 20 years. His method of opposing British rule and treatment was through mass non-violent civil disobedience, which has made him a model for peaceful revolution around the world.

Gandhi believed in living a simple life. He wove and made his own clothes, was a vegetarian and used traditional Indian fasts both for self-purification and protests against British discriminatory legislation against Indians. His philosophy of life and political “action” remain a beacon of hope for oppressed people around the world.

Food Poetry: A Food for Everything, by T. A. Ramesh

Published by Jonell Galloway + Friday, February 22, 2013 Permalink 0

A FOOD FOR EVERYTHING!

by T.A. Ramesh

Meals are the food for the body;
Knowledge is the food for the mind;
Meditation is the food for the spirit;
Music is the food for the love of heart;
Dreams are the food for the consciousness;
Prayer is the food for the Almighty;
Love is the food for the living heart;
Thoughts are the food for the brain;
Colourful ink is the food for the pen;
Ideas are the food for the stories;
Truth is the food for the will;
Sun’s energy is the food for the plants;
Plants are the food for the living beings;
But one man’s food is another man’s poison!

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 4, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

Bad cooks — and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen – have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.–Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist. He is best known for saying, in his famous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, that “God is dead” and declaring that man, no longer “the image of God,” is a “chance product of a nature uninterested in purpose or value”.

An overview of Nietzsche’s philosophy…
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Simple Sustenance: Chai Splendor, a food photography exhibit by Renu Chhabra

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by Renu Chhabra

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.–Thich Nat Hahn

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.–Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 2, 2012

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by Simón de Swaan

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive.–William Ralph Inge, 1920

William Ralph Inge was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, “Dean Inge.” Author of thirty-five books, he is best known of for his works on Plotinus and Christian Neoplatonic philosophy, and Christian mysticism.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, November 7, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.–Adam Smith, 1776

Adam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title “The Wealth of Nations,” is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, it is a reflection on economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and argues that free market economies are more productive and beneficial to their societies. The book is a fundamental work in classical economics.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, November 4, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other’s food.–Jean Baudrillard, 1986

French theorist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was one of the foremost intellectual figures in modern history. His work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of phenomena of the period.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 27, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.–David Hume, 1751

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, and last of the British Empiricists.

Hume’s major philosophical works — A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and An Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), as well as the posthumously published Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) — remain widely and deeply influential.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, October 24, 2011

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by Simón de Swaan

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.–Socrates, c 430 BC

Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher unlike any other, since he never wrote anything. He is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

He believed in teaching people how they ought to live and how to think for themselves, and is therefore compared by many to Jesus and Buddha, even though he had no dogma as such. He was convicted and executed for irreverence toward the Greek gods.

Simon Says: Daily Food Quote, September 26, 2011

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In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty.—Babylonian Talmud, c. 500

The Talmud is a central text of mainstream Judaism. It takes the form of a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, philosophy, customs and history.