Quotes About Critique

Publicity overrates everything. Picasso's overrated. I'm overrated. Even Jack Benny's overrated.

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Thomas Hobbes called. He wants his thesis back.

Erra pointed at Curran with her thumb. You want to marry this? Is there a shortage of men?

Immanuel Kant

Dogmatism is thus the dogmatic procedure of pure reason without previous criticism of its own powers, and in opposing this procedure, we must not be supposed to lend any countenance to that loquacious shallowness which arrogates to itself the name of popularity, nor

Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.

People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.

I suspect the study of English literature is doing you no good, it's full of all sorts of romantic high-flown nonsense. You've been reading Shelley. I plead guilty to that crime.

I've almost finished The Republic. I find Plato at times a vile casuist, and almost always a reactionary. But he does write exquisite Greek.

The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

I don't accept the Zionist idea.

If you look back at a film like 'Dawn of the Dead' - You can either watch it as a straight-up genre film and have fun with zombies being shot, or you can look at it as a metaphor for consumerism. Or a metaphor for the Vietnam war.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.