Marco Pierre White vs. Baruch Spinoza
Read 13 entries attributed to Marco Pierre White alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 13 entries attributed to Marco Pierre White alongside 20 attributed to Baruch Spinoza. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: truth, art, life, philosophy, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Marco Pierre White, entry #155396: "Most chefs, unfortunately, cook by numbers. It doesn't come from within. Molecular cuisine is basically branding food. There's nothing new to it. Its foundation is still classical."
Attributed to Baruch Spinoza, entry #323: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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Marco Pierre White
1961
Marco Pierre White is an English chef, restaurateur and television personality. In 1995, he became the first British chef, and at age 33 the youngest chef at the time, to be awarded three Michelin stars. White trained a generation of prominent chefs including Gordon Ramsay, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennett, Curtis Stone, Phil Howard and Stephen Terry.
"Most chefs, unfortunately, cook by numbers. It doesn't come from within. Molecular cuisine is basically branding food. There's nothing new to it. Its foundat…"
#friendship"It is only by growing to know yourself that you do things for the right reasons and maybe have a chance to be really happy and realise your true potential as…"
#truth"Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she i…"
#truth"To start giving three stars straight away from year one makes you question Michelin and its value – they dish out stars like confetti now."
#art"Cooking should be a way of life—an extension of oneself—never a job."
#life"Success is born out of arrogance."
#life"As far as I'm concerned, if someone is paying a huge amount of money to come to your restaurant and eat your food, then you have a duty to be in the kitchen."
#money"Cooking is a philosophy, it's not a recipe. Unless it's pastry, then it's chemistry."
#philosophy"Apply the cook's brain and visualize that fried egg on the plate. Do you want it to be burned around the edges? Do you want to see craters on the egg white? …"
#life"Great chefs have three things in common. The first is the understanding that mother nature is the true artist and they are the cook. The second is that every…"
#wisdom"When I made the decision to retire, I had three options. The first option was, I don't retire, I stay in the kitchen, I continue to work six or seven days a …"
#family"It's very important to me that I share my story, and my knowledge and my philosophy. A story is more important than a recipe. A recipe can confuse you, but a…"
#knowledge"Most of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance."
#historyBaruch Spinoza
1632 – 1677
Baruch (de) Spinoza, also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, who was born and lived in the Dutch Republic. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and Dutch intellectual culture, establishing himself as one of the most important and radical philosophers of the early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the Dutch Golden Age.
"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
#Human Nature"In defining thought as an attribute Spinoza towered above any representative of mechanistic materialism and was at least two centuries in advance of his time…"
#mind"...But when it comes to the subject of the arts, Spinoza is oddly reticent. His failure to consider the aesthetic response—surely a profound facet of human e…"
#art"It is also a very curious thing. Why should a 17th-century Portuguese-Jewish philosopher whose dense and opaque writings are notoriously difficult to underst…"
#truth"In the year 1888, before leaving the Normal School to face the experiences of actual life, he wrote Credo quia verum. This is a remarkable document, a spirit…"
#religion"Immortality in Spinoza"
#death"Today I have been reading Linné again and am quite unnerved by this extraordinary man. I have learned an infinite amount from him, not just in botany. Outsid…"
#knowledge"In view of these facts, the assertion is justified that Spinoza's influence on the cultural process of his own race in modern times was almost as powerful as…"
#life"...They have had the most painful history of all peoples, not without the fault of all of us, and when one owes to them the noblest man , the purest sage , t…"
#power"Hegel is an admirable 'theoretician' of ideology insofar as he is a 'theoretician' of Universal Recognition who unfortunately ends up in the ideology of Abso…"
#knowledge"When we read Spinoza, we are seized with a feeling like that of seeing nature at its grandest in most vigorous repose: a forest of thoughts, tall as the sky,…"
#nature"The encounter between the two greatest philosophers of the seventeenth century in fact extended over several days. From a letter Leibniz posted to the Duke o…"
#time"We have gathered within the walls of the Communist Academy and are devoting this evening to Spinoza's memory not from the considerations which guided the org…"
#knowledge"Every philosophy of philosophy that excludes Spinoza must be spurious."
#philosophy"...We may deny his conclusions; we may consider his system of thought preposterous and even pernicious, but we cannot refuse him the respect which is the rig…"
#mind"...Subsequently, he discovered a third master, a liberator of his faith. This was Spinoza, whose acquaintance he made during an evening spent alone at school…"
#life"When things got really tough, Spinoza was even deserted by his own family. They tried to disinherit him on the grounds of his heresy. Paradoxically enough, f…"
#life"...Leibniz's Theodicy is an intelligent abstract of Christian doctrine, exhibiting what it would be if it were essentially scientific, whereas it is essentia…"
#science"Spinoza formulated the problem of the socially patterned defect very clearly. He says: "Many people are seized by one and the same affect with great consiste…"
#time"Instead of engaging in this rather boring academic exercise of opposing Spinoza and Levinas, what I want to accomplish is a consciously old-fashioned Hegelia…"
#philosophy