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Thoughts and reflections on vacation

Carl William Brown — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:53:45 +0000

Thoughts and reflections on vacation

Thoughts and reflections on vacation, some meditations on this summer popular topic by different and famous authors, writers and artists to enrich our holidays. What’s more don’t forget to visit pour main page on Tourism and travels. There you can take a tour around the world learning about culture, traditions, curiosities, towns, lakes, mountains, best hotels, magnificent cruises, links, photos and videos by English-culture.com

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony – this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
Jean Baudrillard

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith

More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do.
Cindy Sondik Aron

Sometimes a vacation helps restore peace in families. But you have to find the right method. My brother did this: after a whole year spent sticking together with his wife, he said: «Carme’, this year I want to take a healthy vacation». «Genna’, and how do you take a healthy vacation?» «Say hello to us here, we’ll catch up on the way back!»
Alessandro Siani

Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
Robert J. Fischer

Reflections on vacation

What distinguishes a true samurai from other characters is that the original fighter always walks with death at his side and always trains, with his mind above all, instead of going on vacation, even when it’s a holiday.
Carl William Brown

[My wife and I] argued and butted heads for a while, and finally decided that it would be better to take a vacation or get a divorce. We discussed it calmly, like mature people, and we decided to get a divorce because we could only spend so much. And besides, a vacation in Bermuda lasts two weeks, whereas a divorce lasts a lifetime.
Woody Allen

These young people lack neither character nor good aptitude nor diligence: but they have not been given time to give themselves direction, rather they have been accustomed, from childhood, to receive direction. When they were mature enough to be “sent into the desert”, something else was done instead – they were used, they were alienated from themselves, they were educated to be used daily, they created for them a theory of duties out of all this – and now they cannot do without it and do not want anything else. The fact remains that these poor draft animals cannot be refused “holidays” – as this ideal of idleness of a century exhausted by too much work is called: in which it is permitted for once to abandon oneself to laziness and to become stupid and childish at one’s pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every year, at the beginning of summer, we read learned analyses of staggered holidays, “hit and run” vacations, reasonable departures (intelligent, it seems excessive). Then comes Ferragosto and everything is as usual: people, if they can, don’t stay at home. We bite, yes, but only if they don’t let us escape along crowded highways. It’s not clear whether we are forced (closed offices, shops too), or instead we love the collective ritual and its barbaric aspects: crowds, queues, waiting, suffering and complaints.
Beppe Severgnini

I never went on vacation with my father, also because my father spent his vacations, about fifteen days in August, painting the apartment under the watchful, attentive and slightly annoying guidance of my mother. Those were the years of the economic boom in Italy, but in our house there was very little money going around. Later we could also go on vacation, and in fact on some occasions both my mother and I had taken vacations, but my father never, by now he had gotten used to it and didn’t even miss it. Now I don’t remember those August months of so many years ago very well, but one thing I know for sure, they were the best times of my life.
Carl William Brown

When it comes to the summer months most people start to think about where they will be going on vacation. This is the time of year when most individuals take time off of work because the kids are out of school. It is the perfect time for everyone to spend time together and to regroup from the stress that is often experienced with everyday life.
Cindy Crawford

The current Western concept of holidays is as ferocious as the very concept of work, not only because it interferes profoundly with the sense of freedom, but because it transforms and distorts its meaning. During the holidays, millions of people are forced to have fun, just as during the rest of the year they are forced to work tirelessly, to dream of finding a job or to recover from breakdowns and illnesses, caused by forced and daily work activity.
Silvano Agosti

I really love visiting cities of art on vacation. On vacation I go looking for asphalt like a pointer dog looks for a pheasant. What’s better than Madrid in August? Maybe Ibiza in August, but you have to be normal. Instead of a pedal boat, the subway. Instead of a walk by the sea, the queue in front of the museum. Instead of a fresh coconut, a hot orangeade. Then I go home pretty gaunt, but with a brain like that. And double the two bullshit.
Luciana Littizzetto

Different opinions on vacation

Capitalist societies first reduce a lot of people to poverty and then they commission sociologists and statistics professors to do research on poverty and that’s how we discover that the poor generally don’t have much money, they are numerous, they are usually poorly educated, although not always, they generally come from poor areas of the territory and so on, they spend little, they go to the theater little, they don’t go on vacation, they are vulgar, they wash little, and so on and so forth.
Carl William Brown

Luckily, every year, the holidays arrive, right on time. So we can get rid of those tired eyes of a hen struggling to lay an egg, that color of ice cream licked by a child, with all the flavors mixed together. And, with the holidays, comes the time to cast off. Unplug. Find peace. In the summer, all I want to do is sit on a deckchair and stay there. Still. I want the only thing that moves in me to be the dandruff. And if someone asks me: “What are you doing tonight?”, I already have the answer ready: “Nothing. At most I’ll peel the peppers”.
Luciana Littizzetto

On paper, vacations are always great. They’re supposed to save your marriage, get you healthy, promote world peace, make your skin glow again… The truth is, if you do them right, they’re worse than work. They’re like a cruise with diarrhea. You spend a lot of money sleeping in airports, lugging suitcases that weigh twice as much as you do, eating food that’s impossible to identify, and entrusting your safety to people you’ve never met before.
Erma Bombeck

Every “employee” has one. They are evil clouds that hide behind the mountains for up to 12 months, but when they realize that their man is about to go on vacation, they fall on his head, unloading a square of hail on the back of his neck in a meter by meter and accompany him relentlessly.
Paolo Villaggio

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
Susan Sontag

I am an absolute libertarian, and I think that every restriction is a limit to the healthy economic progress of humanity, for this reason I would not only prohibit murderers from going to prison, buildings that among other things I would immediately abolish, together with all those sordid characters that animate the world of politics and justice, but I would also give them a nice prize. Maybe a prize vacation in China, why not?
Carl William Brown

Oh, why can’t we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.
S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Sheekman

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Various ideas on vacation

If you go on holiday by motorbike, things take on a completely different aspect. In a car you are always in a cockpit; you are used to it and you do not realize that everything you see from that window is nothing but an extra dose of TV. You are a passive observer and the landscape passes by you boringly inside a frame. On a motorbike the frame is no longer there. You have complete contact with everything. You are not a spectator, you are in the scene, and the feeling of presence is overwhelming.
Robert Maynard Pirsig

Some scholars argue that the energy needed for a fortnight’s vacation is equivalent to that consumed in two months of work. On the other hand, what is spent in a fortnight’s vacation corresponds to what is earned in two months of work.
Eros Drusiani

Seeing some of my acquaintances in the mountains during the Christmas holidays, memories of the good old days of university come to mind, when I had to work on holidays, always, while many of my classmates went to have fun, in the summer to the seaside, and in the winter to the snow!
Carl William Brown

Vacations have become somewhat of a status symbol and a measuring device of how well we’re keeping up with the Joneses. This is another path that leads directly into the “Artificial Wealth Trap.” While I am a strong advocate of taking time to travel and experience other locales, you must keep in mind that vacations are not long term investments. The strategy here is simple: Do not use your credit cards to finance your travles. You may be living it up in the lap of luxury and relaxation while on vacation but ask yourself how relaxed you will feel when the bills come in.
J. J. Childers

The death of some workers in a car accident seems almost like a dramatic liberation; that of some rich vacationers in a plane crash seems more pleasantly humorous; finally, the death of some devotees on a pilgrimage to Lourdes turns out to be tragically comic.
Carl William Brown

Vacations are seen as an antidote to work. They are medicine, a remedy for counteracting the effects of labor… Vacations allow us to be away from the job, to change the patterns of our day, to alter our routine, to reconfigure our actions and habits, to rediscover ourselves.
Al Gini

There are people who, once they have a job, identify with the company, spend themselves, do their utmost, are always available, study, observe, learn, invent new solutions. And there is another category of people who, while respecting the contract, only do the minimum required. They use all their holidays, all their maternity or sick leave, they stop working at the exact moment their working hours end and they don’t dedicate a single thought to it. They don’t get involved, they don’t study, they don’t innovate. Both, legally, do their duty. But, from the point of view of social life, there is an unbridgeable difference between them.
Francesco Alberoni

Opinions and ideas on vacation

In this vacation we should try to exercise only one human discipline: the sublime art of avoidance. Avoid people, avoid… There are only two things we do not avoid doing. Reading. Reading a lot. Which is ultimately the most comfortable way to travel. And then paying attention. To what happens to us and what has happened to us during the year. To understand. “In life it is not the signs that are missing. What is missing is the code.” Pennac says so and I believe it”.
Luciana Litizzetto

Vacations are your best chance in the year to get in some real living, to get out of the job-as-life box, off automatic pilot, and rediscover your passions, enthusiasms, friends, family, and the vitality of partaking in the world outside career brainlock. Social scientists have found that leisure experiences increase positive mood, act as a buffer against life’s setbacks, and open the door to the best times of our lives.
John De Graaf

Going on vacation is also stressful. Do you know the lines we have to stand in at the airport? They never end, you stand there for hours and hours. A gentleman, finally arriving at the counter after a long time, was asked by the girl behind the counter: «So, where are you going to go?». «With difficulty, I’ve finished my vacation…»
Alessandro Siani

I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I am confronted with a whole week in which I have nothing to do but enjoy myself I do not know where to begin. To me, enjoyment comes fleetingly and unheralded; I cannot determinedly enjoy myself for a whole week at a time.
Robertson Davies

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Quotes and ideas on vacation

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Sea quotes and aphorisms

Carl William Brown — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:18:47 +0000

Sea quotes and aphorisms

Sea quotes and aphorisms, ideas, thoughts, short reflections and meditations about the sea, the ocean and the metaphors about the sea, life, travel and troubles.

The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.
Thomas B. Aldrich

A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Sea waves sound reminds me of the beating of my mother’s heart filtered by the amniotic fluid in her placenta. It is an association that, however, cannot calm my anguish for her passing.
Carl William Brown

Praise the sea; on shore remain.
John Florio

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert

Where there is a sea there are pirates.
Greek Proverb

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can’t change the wind, you must adjust your sails.
Sea proverb

The rougher the seas, the smoother we sail. Ahoy!

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.
Nayyirah Waheed

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves… it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
Adrienne Rich

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Irish Proverb

Quotes about the sea

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
John Keats

In high seas or in low seas, I’m gonna be your friend… I’m gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I’ll be by your side… I’ll be by your side.
Bob Marley

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.
Beyoncé

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
Dave Barry

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
Vincent van Gogh

The ridiculous modern bourgeoisie is more interested in a seaside vacation, in the garden of their own house, or in the various optional extras to be mounted on their car than in the real fate of humanity.
Carl William Brown

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.
Author Unknown

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
Anne Sexton

Sea quotes and aphorisms

Theory is a great net that goes fishing in the sea of experience, what is fished, is fished. Especially today, where the waters are very polluted and fish are scarce.
Carl William Brown

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.
Gertrude Ederle

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…
Herman Melville

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
Le Testament d’Orphée

There are veins in the hills where jewels hide And gold lies buried deep; There are harbor-towns where the great ships ride And fame and fortune sleep; But land and sea though we tireless rove And follow each trail to the end Whatever the wealth of our treasure-trove The best we shall find is a friend.
John J. Moment

I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life To the gulls way and the whales way where the winds like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long tricks o
John Masefield

The abode of God too is wherever is earth and sea and air and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch that is Jupiter.
Lucan

They went to sea in a sieve they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
Edward Lear

In fact the belief in the spherical earth had currency more than a century before Columbus famous voyage. For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country. And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it….
Sir John Mandeville

Man is so stupid that he despises the companions who sail with him in the stormy sea of troubles of his own existence, while he admires in amazement those who make him sink.
Carl William Brown

Touch the earth love the earth honour the earth her plains her valleys her hills and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Henry Beston

Old England is our home and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime our flag in every sea.
Mary Howitt

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society to have our place in it and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton

… and so castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.
Jimi Hendrix

Interest in global circumnavigation is older than Christianity itself. In fact if the following quotation is to be credited some attempts at circumnavigation predated the birth of Christ: As for the rest of the distance around the inhabited earth which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions never met) it is not of very great extent if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us… For those who undertook circumnavigation and turned back without having achieved their purpose say that they were made to turn back not because of any continent that stood in their way and hindered their further advance inasmuch as the sea still continued open as before but because of their destitution and loneliness.
Strabo

We must plant the sea and herd its animals. Using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about farming replacing hunting.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Richard Hooker

The surging sea of human life forever onward rolls And bears to the eternal shore its daily freight of souls; Tbough bravely sails our bark today pale Death sits at the prow And few shall know we ever lived a hundred years from
Mary A. Ford

The old wooden shed Stranded in a sea of wheat Waiting for harvest.
Daniel Denault

Bernard Loomers father was a sea captain. He was acquainted with his small place in an uncontrollable nature. In a talk in 1974 Loomer described his fathers instructions about the uses of a baseball glove. The father had just overheard his sons sandlot
William Dean

Sea and ocean quotes

Over the glittering rattled ladders of shale the birds cross tangential to the sea at night. Hour upon hour you can sense the undulation of wings. If you lift your cheek quite carefully you can feel the kiss and the wisp of air stirred by the inaudible glide.
Jan Haag

L’éternité. Cest la mer mêlee Au soleil [Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.]
Arthur Rimbaud

The time has come the Walrus said To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Lewis Carroll

Shermans buzzin along to de sea Like Moses ridin on a bumblebee.
Stephen Vincent Benet

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree … and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.
George Washington

If the sea And the sun Can bleach a bone Til its whiter Than a gull Cleaner than foam Oh how bright My soul Can emerge Purged On the beach Of Christs water And light. And How calm And warm His sand.
Carol Lynn Pearson

Literature feeds on itself, which is why sometimes some writers get indigestion and vomit a sea of nonsense.
Carl William Brown

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. Ill trust you to make sure that doesnt happen.
Dan Rather

How can we fret and stew sub specie aeternitatis – under the calm gaze of ancient Tao? The salt of the sea is in our blood; the calcium of the rocks is in our bones; the genes of ten thousand generations of stalwart progenitors are in our cells. The sun shines and we smile. The winds rage and we bend before them. The blossoms open and we rejoice. Earth is our long home.
Stewart W. Holmes

Power? Its like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it there is nothing there.
Harold Macmillan

O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates

Suddenly from behind the rim of the moon in long slow-motion moments of immense majesty there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel a light delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth … home.
Edgar Mitchell

Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.
Dion Fortune

Though they go mad they shall be sane Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again Though lovers be lost Love shall not. And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
Dylan Thomas

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season murmuring the name of each islet is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
Nikos Kazantzakis

A gull rides the waves as if Made for the sea A swallow will sail high in the air. Oh let my soul rise let it Soar far and free; Or mount on the high winds of care.
Clara Edmunds-Hemingway

The trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard; Lo the depths of the stone-covered charnels are stirred: From the sea from the land from the south and the north. The vast generations of man are come forth.
Henry H. Milman

Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.
Tibullus

Glory to those who have explored the sea of darkness and what there was to explore. Their folly represents the highest degree of intellect.
Carl William Brown

We watch the liner in the distance glide Out from the sheltered waters of the bay Into the arms of ocean’s vastness won. Enfolded in infinity of tide We lose it and the last faint smoke line gray Merges into the sunset and is gone. Vanished from sight and lost art thou at sea Swallowed in oceans blue immensity? Ah no. Though trackless be the deep and wide Thy pilot shall bring thee triumphantly Into the harbor on the other side.
Edith E. McGee

Sea life quotes and aphorisms

The sea is God’s thoughts spread out.
Charles Morgan

The Three Ships As I went up the mountain-side The sea below me glitterd wide And Eastward far away I spied On Christmas Day on Christmas Day The three great ships that take the tide On Christmas Day in the morning. Ye have heard the song how thes
Alfred Noyes

Twisting inland the sea fog takes awhile in the apple trees.
Michael McClintock

The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.
Queen Elizabeth I

Cease rude Boreas blustering railer! List ye landsmen all to me; Messmates hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.
George A. Stevens

The hills have been high for man’s mounting The woods have been dense for his axe The stars have been thick for his counting The sands have been wide for his tracks. The sea has been deep for his diving The poles have been broad for his sway But bravely he’s proved in his striving That Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Eliza Cook

A wet sheet and a flowing sea A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast. And bends the gallant mast my boys While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies and leaves Old England on the lee.
Allan Cunningham

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue the fresh the ever free!
Bryan W. Procter

The sea of mass media stupidity with socials has become an ocean of imbecility.
Carl William Brown

What fairy-like music steals over the sea Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?
Mrs. C. B. Wilson

I am obsessed with the edges of things like stone at the edge of the sea when foam breaks into sky or your hand dissolves into my.
Stanley Cooperman

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
Humphrey Gilbert

Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog so the captain re
Frank Koch

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
William Winter

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing Onward the sailors cry: Carry the lad thats born to be king Over the sea to Skye.
Harold Edwin Boulton

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… “Beware of me,” it says, “but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate to be near the sea and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.
Langston Hughes

Sea aphorisms and quotes

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.
William James

Ocean separates lands, not souls.
Munia Khan

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
Charlotte Eriksson

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Carl Gustav Jung best quotes

Carl William Brown — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:59:13 +0000

Carl Gustav Jung best quotes

Carl Gustav Jung best quotes and aphorisms, ideas, thoughts, maxims, and pearls of wisdom from the great Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, anthropologist, and philosopher.

Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god. Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum: but from Abraxas LIFE, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.
Carl Gustav Jung Septem Sermones ad Mortuos. 1916

A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
Carl Gustav Jung

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
Carl Gustav Jung

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Gustav Jung

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
Carl Gustav Jung

A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.
Carl Gustav Jung

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Gustav Jung

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.
Carl Gustav Jung

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture challenging the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man – his daring and his aspirations. Should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life. What would have happened if Paul had allowed himself to be talked out of his journey to Damascus?
Carl Gustav Jung

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
Carl Gustav Jung

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
Carl Gustav Jung

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl Gustav Jung

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Gustav Jung

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Gustav Jung

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‘have complexes’. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Carl Gustav Jung

A dream that, despite being manifest, does not interpret itself, and never has a clear meaning. No dream says, “You must,” or “This is the truth.” It presents an image, like nature makes a plant grow, and we must draw the consequences.
Carl Gustav Jung

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Gustav Jung

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
Carl Gustav Jung

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
Carl Gustav Jung

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
Carl Gustav Jung

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
Carl Gustav Jung

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Gustav Jung

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
Carl Gustav Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Gustav Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Gustav Jung

It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
Carl Gustav Jung

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Carl Gustav Jung

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Gustav Jung

Life not lived is a disease from which one can die.
Carl Gustav Jung

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
Carl Gustav Jung

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Gustav Jung

Aphorisms and quotes by Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Carl Gustav Jung

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav Jung

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Gustav Jung

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Gustav Jung

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Gustav Jung

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
Carl Gustav Jung

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
Carl Gustav Jung

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Gustav Jung

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Gustav Jung

Our blight is ideologies – they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Carl Gustav Jung

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
Carl Gustav Jung

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape. But those who have a higher conception of education will prize most the method of cultivating a tree so that it fulfils to perfection its own natural conditions of growth.
Carl Gustav Jung

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl Gustav Jung

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Gustav Jung

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl Gustav Jung

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Gustav Jung

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Carl Gustav Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.
Carl Gustav Jung

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
Carl Gustav Jung

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
Carl Gustav Jung

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Carl Gustav Jung

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung

The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Gustav Jung

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Carl Gustav Jung

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.
Carl Gustav Jung

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.
Carl Gustav Jung

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.
Carl Gustav Jung

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Gustav Jung

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
Carl Gustav Jung

The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
Carl Gustav Jung

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Gustav Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Carl Gustav Jung

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Gustav Jung

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Gustav Jung

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Gustav Jung

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.
Carl Gustav Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung

The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is… lack of faith.
Carl Gustav Jung

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.
Carl Gustav Jung

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Gustav Jung

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Gustav Jung

The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fuhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
Carl Gustav Jung

The word “belief” is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.
Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung quotes and ideas

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung

There can be no transforming of darkness into light, and of apathy into movement, without emotion.
Carl Gustav Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Gustav Jung

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
Carl Gustav Jung

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Gustav Jung

We are all born originals and die copies.
Carl Gustav Jung

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Gustav Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Carl Gustav Jung

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Gustav Jung

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Gustav Jung

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one’s own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one’s ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one’s subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.
Carl Gustav Jung

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Carl Gustav Jung

We survive by what we receive, but we live by what we give.
Carl Gustav Jung

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Gustav Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Gustav Jung

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books, but lives in our very blood?
Carl Gustav Jung

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
Carl Gustav Jung

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung

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Osho quotes and aphorisms

Carl William Brown — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:29:06 +0000

Osho quotes and aphorisms

Osho quotes and aphorisms, famous phrases and great words of wisdom from the great Indian nonconformist thinker, philosopher, mystic and spiritual master.

OSHO – never born, never died. He only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931, and January 19, 1990.
Osho Epitaph

Never speak of me in the past tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
Osho

A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
Osho

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
Osho

A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality. (Here are a few more good parenting tips)
Osho

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
Osho

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
Osho

A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.
Osho

Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?
Osho

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
Osho

All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
Osho

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
Osho

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
Osho

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!
Osho

Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead.
Osho

Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
Osho

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
Osho

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
Osho

Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Osho

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
Osho

By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
Osho

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
Osho

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
Osho

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.
Osho

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
Osho

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.
Osho

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.
Osho

Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
Osho

Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
Osho

Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.
Osho

Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
Osho

Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
Osho

Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
Osho

Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.
Osho

Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
Osho

Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
Osho

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Osho

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
Osho

Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
Osho

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
Osho

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
Osho

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that they are fools, so they are not worried about what others think about them.
Osho

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
Osho

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
Osho

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything.
Osho

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point.
Osho

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
Osho

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
Osho

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
Osho

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Osho

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
Osho

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
Osho

Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed – and that you are, you already are.
Osho

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
Osho

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Osho

I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
Osho

I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
Osho

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
Osho

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
Osho

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
Osho

I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Osho

If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
Osho

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.
Osho

If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.
Osho

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
Osho

If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
Osho

If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?
Osho

If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
Osho

Osho aphorisms and quotes

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
Osho

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
Osho

If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
Osho

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
Osho

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
Osho

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
Osho

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
Osho

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Osho

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
Osho

Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
Osho

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
Osho

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
Osho

It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.
Osho

It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
Osho

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Osho

It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
Osho

It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.
Osho

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.
Osho

It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.
Osho

Just get out of your own way.
Osho

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
Osho

Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
Osho

Life begins where fear ends.
Osho

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
Osho

Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
Osho

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
Osho

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
Osho

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Osho

Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
Osho

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.
Osho

Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
Osho

Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
Osho

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
Osho

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
Osho

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
Osho

Love in itself, or just having a relationship with someone, is not going to give you happiness, unless you bring happiness with you.
Osho

Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
Osho

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
Osho

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.
Osho

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
Osho

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
Osho

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage, everything misfires.
Osho

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
Osho

Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
Osho

Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
Osho

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
Osho

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Osho

Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.
Osho

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
Osho

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
Osho

Love never dies through separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness; never by separation.
Osho

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.
Osho

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
Osho

Man is always exploited through fear.
Osho

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
Osho

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
Osho

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
Osho

My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
Osho

Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.
Osho

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
Osho

Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
Osho

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
Osho

Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
Osho

No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.
Osho

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
Osho

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Osho

Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
Osho

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
Osho

Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.
Osho

Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
Osho

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Osho

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.
Osho

One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
Osho

Only idiots are not controversial.
Osho

Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
Osho

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
Osho

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
Osho

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
Osho

People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
Osho

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
Osho

Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
Osho

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
Osho

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.
Osho

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
Osho

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
Osho

Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
Osho

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously.
Osho

Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
Osho

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
Osho

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
Osho

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
Osho

Suicide leads nowhere, it simply enters your consciousness into another womb of a lower kind, because you could not manage to live on a higher level.
Osho

Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.”
Osho

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
Osho

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
Osho

That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
Osho

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Osho

The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.
Osho

The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
Osho

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
Osho

Osho quotes, aphorisms and ideas

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Osho

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
Osho

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
Osho

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.
Osho

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
Osho

The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
Osho

The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the others. You are slave. You are yet not free. You are in bondage.
Osho

The person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
Osho

The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
Osho

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Osho

The society is ill;individuals are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
Osho

The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
Osho

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.
Osho

There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
Osho

These are the only two real emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.
Osho

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.
Osho

This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.
Osho

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
Osho

To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
Osho

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.
Osho

To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
Osho

To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
Osho

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
Osho

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
Osho

U bring a beautiful prince;in the morning he becomes a frog! Every prince turns into a frog in the end. And then you are puzzled: What went wrong.
Osho

Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
Osho

Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
Osho

We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
Osho

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
Osho

Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind;don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
Osho

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
Osho

Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
Osho

When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
Osho

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
Osho

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.
Osho

When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
Osho

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
Osho

Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
Osho

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
Osho

Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.
Osho

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.
Osho

You are creating your own hell.
Osho

You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
Osho

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
Osho

You cannot think about love. Either you can love, or you cannot, but you cannot think about it.
Osho

You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.
Osho

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
Osho

You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.
Osho

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
Osho

Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
Osho

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
Osho

Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
Osho

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
Osho

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
Osho

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Italian culinary art colleges

Carl William Brown — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:30:13 +0000

Tortelli Italian dish

Italian culinary art colleges, questions and answers for Italian hospitality students, a complete summary text about the main topics of this kind of school and the Italian gastronomic culture.

1) What must be the foundamental skills of a good Food and Beverage Manager?

Food and beverage managers plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the operations of restaurants, bars, cafeterias and other businesses that operate serving food and beverage. These kind of professional workers may be employed by restaurants, bars, hotels and resorts etc. Food and beverage managers still require great customer skills but apply management skills ensuring the labour and financial goals of the organization are maintained.

The most important and foundamental professional skills and competence that a good Food and Beverage Manager should have are: a deep operational knowledge of technical methods and processes of production, service, costs control and revenues; conflict resolution skills, ability to work under pressure and good steel nerves, ability to multi-task operations, good organizational skills, leadership skills, good knowledge of two or three foreign languages, qualities of flexibility and adaptability. In addition to all that he/she must have also strong human qualities and must be a good communicator, a quick decision maker, a motivating staff promoter, a skillful organizer and an expert coordinator.

2) Do you know some typical lombard wines? Can you tell something about them?

The winemaking tradition of Lombardy dates back to its settlement by Greek colonist from Athens along the Po river. The climate of Lombardy is varied due to the diverse terrain of the region but is generally considered a “cool” continental climate and it is very favorable to grapes cultivation. The region is known particularly for its sparkling wines made in Oltrepò Pavese and in the Franciacorta; the importance of this last area is given by the exceptional quality of its wines, mainly the whites of the classic method “Champenoise”: a taste fine and delicate, as well as the flavour make of it a superb sparkling wine, present on the tables of the most celebrated restaurants.

Lombardia also produces still red, white and rosé wines made from a variety of local and international grapes including Nebbiolo wines in the Valtellina region, Trebbiano di Lugana white wines produced with the Chiaretto style rosé along the shores of Lake Garda. The wine region currently has 15 Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC), 3 Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) and 13 Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT) designations. The main cities of the region are Milan, Bergamo and Brescia. In this last town province you can find Franciacorta and Botticino areas, or the Garda zone where important and famous wines are produced.

Italian Students of Culinary art colleges

3) What do you know about ethnic and fusion cuisine?

Ethnic is the adjective form of “ethnos” which can be defined as the people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture. An “ethnic restaurant” or “ethnic food” is a lazy way of saying “food from another country I’m not used to eating.” Eventually, if you like the food/restaurant enough and begin to eat it regularly, it sheds the “ethnic” label and you just call it the type of food/restaurant that it is. I never understood why people can’t just call it what it is from the get go. Every dish is ethnic. The so-called “ethnic” restaurants may seem a logical outgrowth of the waves of immigration to the United States and Europe from India, China, South America and Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the result of faster and faster travel possibilities and world wide globalization. The food served in ethnic restaurants often constitutes a distinct cuisine.

In all cultures and contexts, there are some foods that are almost exclusively eaten in restaurants and others that never are. (For example, one would have to read a great many U.S. restaurant menus before finding those two staples of the American diet, peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and popcorn.) If we consider Indian restaurants in the United Kingdom, we find that by the 1990s, they employed more people (roughly 70,000) than the shipbuilding and steel industries combined. At Ethnique cuisines, we bring you dishes from different ethnicities all over the world. Fusion cuisine combines elements of various culinary traditions while not fitting specifically into any. The term generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s. Fusion cuisine blends the culinary traditions of two or more nations to create innovative and sometimes quite interesting dishes. It tends to be more common in culturally diverse and metropolitan areas, where there is a wider audience for such food.

4) How could be composed a typical Lombard Menu?

Lombardy is characterized by a high-quality tourist offer, consisting of lakes, rivers, mountains, cities of art, oenogastronomy, sport and leisure. An area that stretches from the Alps to the Oltrepò and includes the great lakes, large hilly areas and a plain that has been used for agriculture since ancient times can’t help but be an inexhaustible supply of delicious specialities for gourmets. Therefore, it is not by chance that this region has over 250 traditional specialities including cheeses, cold meats, vegetables, cakes and biscuits, without counting the DOC wines which are the pride of whole areas.

There are also many delicious dishes, typical of a culinary tradition that has improved over time, and that today boasts dishes that are famous the whole world over, from “cotoletta alla milanese” (veal cutlets in breadcrumbs) to saffron risotto, from “pizzoccheri della Valtellina” (buckwheat pasta with cheese and vegetables) to “mostarda di frutta cremonese” (fruit pickles from Cremona); from pumpkin tortelli from Mantua to “casonsèi bergamaschi” (a type of homemade pasta), to sweet things such as “torrone cremonese” (nougat from Cremona) to “torta sbrisolona” (a nutty, biscuit type cake) from Mantua, a delight for all those who have a sweet tooth. Therefore a typical menu could be: Rosettes of bresaola (cured raw beef), Risotto at the Milanese, Agnolotti with Bitto cheese and porcini mushroom sauce, Perch with sage, Veal chops in sauce, Potato croquettes, stewed peas, Stuffed apples. In this region we can also have a wide selection of wines such as Valcalepio white wine; Franciacorta red ; Lugana white or San Colombano red ; Oltrepo Pavese and sweet Muscat.

Typical Lombard recipe

5) What do you know about Fast Food and Takeaway restaurants?

Fast food also known as Quick Service Restaurant or QSR within the industry itself, is the term given to food that can be prepared and served very quickly. While any meal with low preparation time can be considered to be fast food, typically the term refers to food sold in a restaurant or store with low quality preparation, preheated or precooked ingredients, and served to the customer in a packaged form for take-out/take-away. The term “fast food” was recognized in a dictionary by Merriam–Webster in 1951. Precooked foods such as french fries or pizza typically must be used within a few hours, or they become dried out and unpalatable. The restaurant must balance availability with the expected numbers of customers, to avoid discarding unused expired product.

Similarly, the food itself is often intended to be consumed quickly, using strong contrasts such dry corn chips with greasy or wet toppings that will combine into a gooey mess if stored for later consumption. Outlets may be stands or kiosks, which may provide no shelter or seating, or fast food restaurants (also known as quick service restaurants). Franchise operations which are part of restaurant chains have standardized foodstuffs shipped to each restaurant from central locations. The capital requirements involved in opening up a fast food restaurant are relatively low. Restaurants with much higher sit-in ratios, where customers tend to sit and have their orders brought to them in a seemingly more upscale atmosphere, may be known in some areas as fast casual restaurants.

In areas which had access to coastal or tidal waters, ‘fast food’ would frequently include local shellfish or seafood, such as oysters or, as in London, eels. Often this seafood would be cooked directly on the quay or close by. The development of trawler fishing in the mid nineteenth century would lead to the development of a British favourite fish and chips partly due to such activities. British fast food had considerable regional variation. Sometimes the regionality of dish became part of the culture of its respective area. The content of fast food pies has varied, with poultry (such as chickens) or wildfowl commonly being used. After World War II, turkey has been used more frequently in fast food. A particularly British form of fast food is the sandwich, popularised by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1762 when he wrapped dried meat in bread so as not to interrupt his work or his gambling (accounts vary).

6) What do you know about August Escoffier and why is he so world wide known?

Georges Auguste Escoffier (28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. He is a legendary figure among chefs and gourmets, and was one of the most important leaders in the development of modern French cuisine. Much of Escoffier’s technique was based on that of Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French haute cuisine, but Escoffier’s achievement was to simplify and modernize Carême’s elaborate and ornate style. Referred to by the French press as roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois (“king of chefs and chef of kings”), Escoffier was France’s pre-eminent chef in the early part of the 20th century. Escoffier’s greatest innovations were in menu planning.

For hundreds of years, doinners had been served in the style called à la francaise, with a large number of different dishes set out on the table at once. Service à la Russe is the practice we know today of serving dishes consequently rather than simultaneously. Alongside the recipes he recorded and invented, another of Escoffier’s contributions to cooking was to elevate it to the status of a respected profession by introducing organized discipline to his kitchens. He organized his kitchens by the brigade de cuisine system, with each section run by a chef de partie. Escoffier’s reorganization into parties, each dependent on the pothers, made the work in the kitchen co-ordinated and well controlled. Escoffier published Le Guide Culinaire, which is still used as a major reference work, both in the form of a cookbook and a textbook on cooking. Escoffier’s recipes, techniques and approaches to kitchen management remain highly influential today, and have been adopted by chefs and restaurants not only in France, but also throughout the world.

Italian Restaurant

7) What do you know about Pellegrino Artusi and why is he so world wide known?

Pellegrino Artusi (1820–1911) was the author of the famous Italian cookbook “The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well. Artusi was born in Forlimpopoli, a town near Forlì, and made his fortune as a silk merchant, but after retiring devoted himself to fine dining. In 1891, at age 71, he completed his famous cookbook, but could not find a publisher. So he used his own money to self-publish, selling a thousand copies of the first edition in four years. Soon, however, the cookbook caught on, and before Artusi died in Florence in 1911, more than 200,000 copies had been sold. Filled with amusing anecdotes as well as recipes, the book is a perennial best seller in Italy, and has been translated in Spanish, Dutch, German and English.

In 1904 Artusi published a practical manual for the kitchen, with over 3,000 recipes and 150 tables, simply entitled “Here is your cookbook” with the anonymous participation and influence of the baroness Giulia Turco. Writing only two decades after the unification of Italy, Artusi was the first to include recipes from all the different regions of Italy in a single cookbook. He is often credited with establishing a truly national Italian cuisine for the first time. Still today his main literary work counts a great number of editions and widespread diffusion. It collects 790 receipts, from broth to liqueurs, passing through soups, hors-d’ouvres (or well beginners), second dishes and cakes. The approach is a didactic one, the receipts are followed by the author’s reflections and anecdotes, as he writes in az witty style. The kitchen science and the art of well eating was a real boundary line in the gastronomic culture of the age.

8) What is a kitchen brigade and where can we find it?

Late in the 19 th Century, the ingenious chef Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) created the modern brigade system while working in London at the Savoy Hotel, even though evidence of brigade-style culinary arrangements can be found in late medieval French and English sources. For getting the utmost efficiency, he organized the kitchen as a strict hierarchical ladder of authorities and functions. This structured team system delegates responsibilities to different individuals that specialize in certain tasks.

At the top of this ladder we find the Head Chef (Chef de cuisine) who coordinates and supervises the kitchen activities, establishes the standards, works out the prices on the menu and so on. He also directs the trainees on work experience. The size of the kitchen brigade usually depends on the type of restaurant and the food that is served. Due to the high costs involved in employing a large staff, many food establishments now expect much more flexibility from a smaller kitchen brigade. Another factor in kitchen staff reduction is the dramatic impact that technology and standardisation have had on the industry process. In any case luxury hotels and first-class restaurants around the globe still employ large brigades because they must provide efficiency and personalised service which are necessary for the standards of their clientele.

Hotel Garda Lake

9) What are the main roles of a head chef and the duties of an under chef?

The Kitchen chef (Chef de cuisine) is responsible for overall management of kitchen. He supervise staff, create menus and new recipes with the assistance of the restaurant manager, make purchases of raw food items, train apprentices and maintain a sanitary and hygienic environment for the preparation of food. He must have the ability to organise duties and solve any problems that may arise in kitchen daily operations. He is not just a cook, but he is a head cook, which implies a higher level of prestige. Depending on the skill, training and perserverance, a chef can climb the ranks and gain more prestige and responsability. many famous chefs have planned their own progress and worked in some of the most notorious restaurants under some of the most renowned chefs in the world until they, too, became skilled and well-known.

The Head chef is assisted by an under chef (sous-chef de cuisine), who supervises how the food is prepared, portioned and arranged according to the head chef’s directions. The Deputy kitchen chef receives orders directly from the chef de cuisine for the management of the kitchen and often represents the chef de cuisine when he or she is not present.Subordinate are the section chefs (chefs de partie); each one is in charge of the preparation of particular food and dishes. All this staff makes up the kitchen brigade, of course the number of the section chefs depends on the size and the class of the restaurant as well as the number of assistants.

10) What does the acronym HACCP mean and what it is used for?

HACCP is the acronym of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point which is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that addresses physical, chemical, and biological hazards as a means of prevention rather than finished product inspection. HACCP is used in the food industry to identify potential food safety hazards, so that key actions, known as Critical Control Points (CCPs) can be taken to reduce or eliminate the risk of the hazards being realized. The system is used at all stages of food production and preparation processes including packaging, distribution, etc.

A critical control point means a point, step or procedure in a food process at which a control measure can be applied, and at which control is essential, to prevent, reduce or eliminate and identified food hazard. This method was applied for the first time in the USA in 1971 by the NASA when the Pillsbury firm accepted to make the food for astronauts and wanted to produce it being very careful with the maximun precautions, in order to assure the safety of the food and the astronauts themselves. This method is nowadays applied everywhere since customer health safety is extremely important, and therefore proper hygiene in the food and beverage industry must be treated with the utmost respect and attention.

Italian grilled chicken

11) What are the seven steps to develop a HACCP plan?

In order to develop a good and healthily prevention system in the food processing industry an accurate HACCP plan must be elaborated and written; this document delineates all the procedures to be followed during food preparation in every kitchen. Once the plan has been prepared, it is necessary to validate and verify that the plan works after it is implemented. there are seven principles which are used to develop and implement a HACCP plan. These seven parts are: 1. Analyse Hazards. Everyone who works in the catering industry must be aware of the hazards associated with food and drinks. Hazards can be biological (i.e. microbe), chemical (i.e. pesticides) or physical (i.e. metal fragment) 2. Identify Critical Control Point.

These are the stages, or points, in the food production process where hazards should be controlled or eliminated. 3.Establish Preventive Measures with critical limits for each control point. This should be for any cooked food. (i.e. determining the minimun cooking temperature). 4. Establish Procedures. To monitor the critical control points. This could include deciding how cooking time and temperature should be supervised and who is responsible. 5. Establish Corrective Actions. To be taken when monitoring which shows that a critical limit has not been met. 6. Establish Procedures. To verify the system is working properly. 7. Establish an Effective System. In order to record information to document HACCP system.

12) Can you classify what are the main types of restaurants, with their food, clients and price range?

Restaurants are classified on the kind of food, type of clients and price range. Therefore wowadays we can have all the different range of food establishments, since in the 20th Century with the development of commerce, business, technolgy and a huge immigration flow, we can have a large variety of offers, of dishes, of menus and of culinary different traditions. We can have: Fast-Food Restaurants, Coffe Shops and Self-Service Restaurants, here the price range is inexpensive and the customers are mainly clerks, students, teachers, families and so on, the food is often precooked or prepared in advance, here you can find soups, pasta, metas, vegetables, desserts, or pizza, hamburgers, french fries, soft drinks, sandwiches, hot and cold drinks, ice cream, snack items, and so on.

Then we can have Hotel Restaurant in which the food, the price and the clients are based on the hotel category, or Ethnic Restaurant where you can find international food such as Chinese, Mexican, Brazilian, Indian, all different kinds of clients and the price range varies from inexpensive to average, finally we can have Speciality Restaurant and Gourmet Restaurant, here you can find speciality cuisine or top quality and elaborate dishes, you can also find all types of clients, from families to VIPs, business clients, celebrities, conference delegates, wealthy people etc. and also the prices varies, from average to expensive and very expensive.

Italian Garda lake wine

13) What is the origin of the term “Menu”, what are the main types of menus and what features should a good menu have?

The word menu, like much of the terminology of cuisine, is French in origin. It ultimately derives from Latin minutus, something made small; in French it came to be applied to a detailed list or résumé of any kind. So originally menus were just list of food that could be raw or cooked, then in 19th Century individual menus were introduced and the food was divide into courses. Nowadays in restaurants, a menu is a printed brochure or public display on a poster or chalkboard that shows the list of options for a diner to select. A menu may be a la carte -in which guests choose from a list of options – or table d’hôte or carte du jour, in which case a pre-established sequence of courses is served, then nowadays we can have coffee shop menus. In the 2000s, many fast food restaurants switched to digital menus which are displayed on flat-screen LCD televisions. Depending on the restaurant, the menu may display a list of wines and their prices, or this information may be available in a separate brochure called the wine list.

Some restaurants may also have separate menus for beer, liquor, and mixed drinks, and for desserts. A good menu should be planned considering a lot of different steps, such as: analyse the potential customer, location of the establishment, the price and cost of food, the staff skill and size, availability of food and reliability of suppliers, time of the year, festivity days, time of the day, number and sequences of courses, nutritional value, last but not least the language. The numbers of courses and the number of dishes may vary depending on the size and type of restaurant, but you must always remember that a menu often influences the customer, so when designing menus, chefs and restaurateurs have to try to appeal to certain marketr segments and they must also create the right atmosphere of the restaurant with decor, furniture and uniforms.

14) Can you explain what is a function and what are the main steps you must follow to organize it well?

A function can be described as the service of food and drink at a specific time and place, for a given number of people at a known price. We can have social functions, such as weddings, anniversaries, dinner dances, seminars; then we can have Business functions, such as conferences, meetings, working lunches, working dinners or finally we can have Social and Business functions such as corporate entertaining. Sometimes these functions are also called banquets, even if this term is used to describe a large formal occasion. The variety of functions events ranges from simply providing bar facilities in a conference reception area before or during the meeting, to the more formal occasion catering for up to one or two thousand people. Function catering is found in the commercial and public sector of the Hospitality Industry. Policy decisions are determined by a number of features concerning type of catering. A caterer usually gets information of the function in advance. This includes: number of guests; price per couvert; menu requirements; drink required; type of menu.

This information allows the manager to assess the resource requirements, for example: staffing, linen, food and drink, equipment. As a consequence the manager can assess the profit margins to be achieved. Marketing considerations must also be taken into account, in fact the function manager should be aware of the competing companies working in the same area and he should have information of other establishments in order to differentiate the offer. The relationship between price and value for money is an important aspect of pricing. Value for money refers not only to the food but to many other factors such as the atmosphere, décor and the level of service and so on. The function manager must plan every aspect, such as the timing of the function, the room layouts, the staff organization, the choice of menu (vegetarian or allergy requirements), types of service, flowers and centrepieces, cloakroom requirements, techinal requirements and so on.

Terme di Sirmione Brescia Italy

15) What do you know about “function catering” and more precisely about organizing Buffets and Banquets?

The terms “buffets” and “banquets” can be summed up with the term “Function catering”. This refers to the request for the supply of food and beverage to people celebrating special events, such as wedding receptions, cocktail parties, business congresses and meetings, stag parties, hen parties and so on. The type of meal chosen largely depends on the degree of formality required, even if the success of a good banquet or buffet mainly relies on the impeccable organization and attention to every detail (floral table pieces, decorations, elegant clothing, china, silverware, glassware). Nowadays in large establishments, provided with banqueting suites or banqueting halls, there is a permanent staff exclusively in charge of the organization of function catering.

The trend is certainly towards buffets rather than endless formal sit down meals and this function is ideal for large number of guests. The customers either help themselves or are served by waiters standing behind the buffet table. What’s more clients prefer to devote less time to eating and leave more time to entertainment. Light and balanced menus, three courses instead of five, are therefore naturally preceded by an aperitif and a buffet. The arrangement of a buffet must be so to highlight all the different food items, and before anything else it has to attract the guests’ attention fo its beauty. The cold buffet can be considered, without any doubt, a new and modern form of catering, it replaces the large meals of the past and allows the tasting of many food specialities.

The food items in a cold buffet can be endless, we can have assorted hot appetisers (savoury patties, or small pizzas, etc), sea food (cold lobster, shrimp cocktails, scampi mousse), fresh water and sea fish, cold beef, veal and pork, mixed salads, desserts, patisserie, fruts, etc. As for the drinks, the service starts with the aperitifs then the white wine is served, both dry and sweet, and high quality red wines, followed by sparkling wines or champagne, then ending with coffee, whiskey or any other suitable cocktail. Among function catering we can have: cocktail buffet, brunch, slunch, the buffet lunch that can also offers hot dishes, the country buffet that can offer country products and the dinner buffet that offers also hot dishes. (pizzas, scones, turnovers, puff, pies, quiches, or cream guns, fresh fruit tatelettes, donuts, cream beignet, etc).

16) What do you know about the Victorian Period and its innovations?

The Victorian era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution, a period of significant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom where the theories of Jeremy Bentham, Carl Mark and Charles Darwin were spreading about. Victoria’s reign was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire; during this period it reached its zenith, becoming the foremost global power of the time. During the reign of Queen Victoria Britain emerged as the most powerful trading nation in the world, provoking a social and economic revolution whose effects are still being felt today. Since the latter part of the eighteenth century the process of industrialisation had built a firm foundation for nineteenth century growth and expansion.

Italian Salami tradition

At the heart of this was the successful development and application of steam technology. Like the steamship, the railway predates the Victorian era. By 1845 2441 miles of railway were open and 30 million passengers were being carried. The building of the railway network was the major achievement of the Victorian period, changing for ever both social patterns and the landscape of Britain. Other useful inventions of this period were the Telephone, the Radio, the Refrigerator, the Toilet, the Camera, the Sewing Machine, the Stamps and the Vacuum Cleaner. There were also significant improvements for food preservation and the first “canned food” like dried soups and chemicals appeared. (Pasteur’s theories).

17) What was a typical Victorian Menu?

During Victorian times the diet of most people began to improve: the invention of steam ship and of refrigeration meant that meat, fish and fruit could be imported! People could begin to eat shellfish, poultry, game, cheeses but also exotic fruit (peaches, pineapples, etc.). The cooks were especially prized for their dessert-making skills-puddings, cakes, etc.

The Victorian period was an epoch of compromise: progress and poverty; corruption and moralism. For the Victorian Upper-classes the woman planned lunch and evening meals (the largest one). She had a cook that did the work for her. They ate 5-6 courses when they were alone; 12-13 when there were guests. “Supper” was the Victorian mid-night snack.

The Afternoon tea served to show off the lady’s finest silver, china and linen. A typical Victorian Menu was composed by Soup, Roast Turkey with dressing or Roast Pork with potatoes or Chicken Fricassee served with rice, Two vegetable side dishes, Citrus ice, Jam, jellies and sweet pickles, and to end Cake and preserved fruit with Coffee, hot punch and water. Wine was served at the end of each course. Madeira and sherry after. Breakfast could be done with scones, fruits, omelettes, bacon and more.

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18) What are your favorite Italian and Lombardy recipes?

ASPARAGUS RICE (Risotto agli asparagi)

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups Italian rice (Risotto Arborio)
1/2 cup salted butter, or 1/4 cup olive oil
2 Tablespoon dried parsley
1 whole red onion (chopped)
5?6 cups chicken stock
20 asparagus spears
1/4 cup olive oil
3 cloves garlic (minced)
8 Tablespoon parmigiano cheese (grated)

PREPARATION METHOD:

Rice Preparation: In a sauce pan, melt butter or add 1/4 cup olive oil. Add onions and parsley. Cook until onion is transparent.
Turn heat to high, add rice. Add 3 ladles of hot chicken stock into rice, stir constantly until liquid is absorbed. Continue adding stock (3 ladles at
a time) and stir until rice is tender. Rice should be sticky and no liquid should remain. Rice should be firm like putting or custard. Put rice aside.
Asparagus Preparation: In a fry pan, add 1/4 cup olive oil and garlic. Cook until garlic is golden. Cut asparagus into 1 inch diagonal pieces, leave 5?6 spears uncut, will be used for garnish. On medium/high setting, cook asparagus (both cut & whole) uncovered for 3 minutes. Add 1/4 cup chicken stock, salt & pepper to taste.
Continue cooking covered until tender. Final Preparation: Add asparagus to rice. Place back on stove, add the cheese and stir. Add more cheese if desired.
Place rice on a serving dish and garnish with whole cooked asparagus spears.

GRILL POACHED WHITEFISH (Coregone-Lavarello- grigliato al cartoccio)

INGREDIENTS:

2 lbs. boned whitefish fillets
1 med. onion
1 med. lemon
salt
pepper
butter

PREPARATION METHOD:

Sprinkle both sides of fillets generously with butter buds. Lay fillets singly on individual sheets of aluminum foil. Cover with onion rings and salt and pepper to taste. Cover onion rings with several full slices of lemon, peel included. Wrap in foil and place on charcoal grill or in broiler oven for 5-6 minutes on each side. Discard cooked lemon slices when foil opened. Decorate plate with fresh lemon slices and fresh parsley.

Garda Lake Fish Dish

GRILLED WHITEFISH WITH SAUCE (Coregone-Lavarello- grigliato con salsa)

PREP: 5 min, Cook: 10 min.

INGREDIENTS:

1/3 cup mayonnaise type salad dressing
1 Tbs. sweet pickle relish
1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 tsp. lemon juice
4 whitefish fillets, or haddock or orange roughy fillets, about 6 ounces each

PREPARATION METHOD:

Prepare grill (medium heat). Combine first 3 ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Set aside. Combine butter and lemon juice in a separate bowl. Mix well. Arrange fish on grill and brush with butter mixture. Grill fish 5 inches from heat source 6-8 minutes, or until fish flakes with a fork, turning once and brushing occasionally with butter mixture. Serve with sauce.

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