De gustibus non est disputandum

Dē gustibus nōn est disputandum ( About tastes (r) is not to be argued ) is a Latin expression that does not come from antiquity . The French writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin derived it from the Spanish “Sobre los gustos no hay disputo” . In scholastic philosophy it says: "De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum." ( One cannot argue about tastes and colors. )

Usually this statement is understood in such a way that nobody can rationally prove that a certain taste sensation is the right one. In other words: there can be no “right” or “wrong” in questions of taste; they are beyond all provability.

Individual evidence

↑ Taste. In: duden.de, accessed on October 23, 2016: "Plural: die Geschmäcke und (colloquially joking) tastes".
↑ Wilfried Stroh : The good taste in the kitchen and feast of the Romans. In: mwn.de, accessed on October 23, 2016 (Lecture on the opening ceremony of the 17th Upper Palatinate Dental Conference “The good taste”. Historical hall of the old town hall of Regensburg. July 3, 2003).

[1] Taste. In: duden.de, accessed on October 23, 2016: "Plural: die Geschmäcke und (colloquially joking) tastes".

[2] Wilfried Stroh : The good taste in the kitchen and feast of the Romans. In: mwn.de, accessed on October 23, 2016 (Lecture on the opening ceremony of the 17th Upper Palatinate Dental Conference “The good taste”. Historical hall of the old town hall of Regensburg. July 3, 2003).