To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Interpretation
Wine is a symbol of culture and history, connecting us to the past.
Clifton Fadiman's quote emphasizes that drinking wine is not just about the beverage itself; it is a unique experience that encapsulates a rich tapestry of human history, culture, and tradition. Each sip serves as a reminder of the countless stories and experiences that have shaped humanity over time, inviting us to appreciate the depth and significance behind this simple act.
In practice
During a wine tasting event, I shared this quote to highlight the significance of wine in expressing culture.
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift of the goddess but a crime against God himself, women were believed to be the vessels of love's malign power.
It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
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