Quotes About Critique

In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points out that for explaining the possibility of scientific knowledge about (physical) objects we have to reflect on central cognitive functions (intuition and categories). According to Piaget, however, the reversal of the attentional focus of the mind does not happen just once but several times – namely at every level transition.

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at

I was struck by a shallow figure of speech. . . . that Christianity is the handmaiden of capitalism.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

To be a true fashionista, you have to be on the best-dressed list and worst-dressed list.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

For my birthday, buy me a politician!

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Molière'S great comic villains are perfect butts for the humorist's lash.

If you're going to offer critique, focus on the process and possibility.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And

To explain our conventional ethical attitudes, is not to justify them.

The Praise of Folly.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra was the source of the 'profoundest error in human history – namely the invention of morality'.

Mr. Tagomi turned to a passer-by, a thin man in rumpled suit. "What is that?" he demanded, pointing. The man grinned. "Awful, ain't it? That's the Embarcadero Freeway. A lot of people think it stinks up the view.

Knocking TV. It's a national pastime in itself. Think in your mind of all the homes, people sitting around saying, 'What's happened to this country? Where's the level of education gone? The morality?

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it. Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

Not as rabid a fan as, say, Nicholson Baker, but I do believe that The Poorhouse Fair, Of the Farm, and The Centaur are all great books, maybe classics. And even since '81's Rabbit Is Rich—as his characters seemed to become more and more repellent, and without any corresponding sign that the author understood that they were repellent—