Quotes About Critique

One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

I mistrust all Systematisers and I avoid them — the will to a System is a lack of integrity.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

Toate ideile despre Biseric? sunt recunoscute drept ceea ce sunt, cea mai rea ÅŸi fals? plat? din câte exist?, pentru a deprecia firea ÅŸi valorile fireÅŸti, însuÅŸi preotul e recunoscut drept ceea ce este, cea mai periculoas? spe?? de parazit, adev?ratul p?ianjen negru al vieÅ£ii...

Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

Revaluation of all values!

But I suffer and have suffered with them: prisoners are they unto me, and stigmatised ones. He whom they call Saviour put them in fetters:— In fetters of false values and fatuous words! Oh, that some one would save them from their Saviour!

I do not refute ideals, I just out on gloves when I deal with them...

Quiere esto decir que todos esos grandes sabios no sólo han sido decadentes, sino que ni siquiera han sido sabios?

The fool interrupts — The writer of this book is no misanthrope; today one pays too dearly for hatred of man.

A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering, willing, feeling) has no meaning: the pathos of 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos – at the same time, as pathos, an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.

The sciences need philosophy; philosophy, in turn, needs the sciences. On both sides, certain naive minds, too confident in their own forces and satisfied with ideas entirely too superficial, believed in the universal value of a single method. On both side a severe critique must lead each method back to its just limits, and teach them to ask aid of the other methods and manners of approach which, by their convergence, will permit the mind to embrace the diverse aspects of reality

Kahlo's letters from New York in the 1930s complement her visual critique: I don't like high society here at all and I feel . . . indignation at all these moneybags around here, as I've seen thousands of people in the most terrible poverty, without anything to eat or anywhere to sleep, it's what has struck me most here, it's frightful to see the rich throwing parties day and night while thousands and thousands of people are dying of hunger.16

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

I'm sure all of us can find fault in our own education, and I certainly wished at times that I'd had other options. My own K-12 education may have been free and easy, but it wasn't necessarily very good.

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

I wouldn't go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.

I think it's important to always stay critical. But rather than dwelling on it and wishing I could change something, it's important to just take those lessons learned and those new notes and apply them to the next thing.