Quotes About Judgment

Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.

There is no Archimedean point from which to judge, since the psyche is indistinguishable from its manifestations. The psyche is the object of psychology, and -fatally enough- also its subject. There is no getting away from this fact. "Psychology and Religion" (1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.8

I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow-sufferer.

I do not in the least mean to say that we must never pass judgement in the cases of persons whom we desire to help and improve. But if the doctor wishes to help a human being he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others.

Le livre sur les types apporta la connaissance que tout jugement d'un homme est limité par son type personnel et que chaque façon de voir est relative. (p. 332)

PopadÅ'bym w znany bÅ'Ä…d autobiografów, który polega na tym, ?e albo snujÄ… iluzje, jak to by? powinno, albo kreÅ›lÄ… jakÄ…Å› apologia pro vita sua. A przecie? czÅ'owiek jest zdarzeniem, nie mo?e oceni? samego siebie, lecz raczej - for better or worse - podlega osÄ…dowi innych.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I do not in the least mean to say that we must never pass judgement in the cases of persons whom we desire to help and improve. But if the doctor wishes to help a human being he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he is.

When we think, it is in order to judge or to reach a conclusion, and when we feel it is in order to attach a proper value to something; sensation and intuition, on the other hand, are perceptive—they make us aware of what is happening, but do not interpret or evaluate it. They do not act selectively according to principles, but are simply receptive of what happens. But "what happens" is merely nature, and therefore essentially non-rational.

statistical reality is the only one, then that is the sole authority. There is then only one condition, and since no contrary condition exists, judgment and decision are not only superfluous but impossible.

If statistical reality is the only one, then that is the sole authority. There is then only one condition, and since no contrary condition exists, judgment and decision are not only superfluous but impossible. Then the individual is bound to be a function of statistics and hence a function of the State or whatever the abstract principle of order may be called.

These moral evaluations are optical illusions, however: the life force is beyond moral judgment.

He who is most guilty is most innocent; the most holy man is the one most conscious of his sin.

Here, it seems to me, Schiller has put his finger on something very important, namely, the possibility of separating out an individual nucleus, which can be at one time the subject and at another the object of the opposing functions, though always remaining distinguishable from them. This separation is as much an intellectual as a moral judgment. In one case it comes about through thinking, in another through feeling.

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.

In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

You've ridden a little?" "Quite a bit, actually," she said. He gave her a paternalistic smile. "We'll see," he said.

Then there was his dad. He wouldn't be as emotional or judgmental about the situation. After all, he'd saved all their lives. But his dad was at best unpredictable. When Cody Hoyt had his fuse lit, anything could happen. Justin wasn't sure he wanted to be the one holding the match.

Way too many fat people in shorts.

I try to avoid confrontations with white trash, but sometimes they don't give you no selection.

That goon didn't know fishing from cathedral architecture!

No," Justin said, shaking his head. "They were fine with it. They're not like that. You should know them better than that." "Well, I don't," Cody said. "I met them that one time and we didn't exactly have a get-to-know-you chat. Gracie was all right, but her sister—" "Her sister what?" Justin asked, his voice cracking. "She just seemed kind of, well, unserious." Cody said.

So we take infinitesimal little actions like preventing oil exploration, or recycling our beer cans, or driving hybrid cars that cost twenty-five times what a Third World worker makes in a year, or shaming other people for their desire to live well and prosper . . .