Quotes about Preference

So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”

Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”

“I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

I have many things to write to you, but I would prefer not to do so with pen and ink.

Are the values we hold dear and guide our lives by just social conventions, like driving on the right-hand versus left-hand side of the road? Or are they merely expressions of personal preference, like having a taste for certain foods? Or are they somehow valid and binding, independent of our opinion, and if they are objective in this way, what is their foundation?

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.