Quotes About Judgment

The essence of things is not altered by their external relations, and that which, abstracting from these, alone constitutes the absolute worth of man is also that by which he must be judged, whoever the judge may be, and even by the Supreme Being.

Conscience is an instinct to pass judgment upon ourselves in accordance with moral laws.

Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to call in philosophy for the purpose of rendering the system of morals more complete and intelligible, and its rules more convenient for use (especially for disputation), but not so as to draw off the common understanding from its happy simplicity, or to bring it by means of philosophy into a new path of inquiry and instruction?

Chisels and hammers may suffice to work a piece of wood, but for etching we require an etcher's needle. Thus common sense and speculative understanding are both useful, but each in its own way: the former in judgments which apply immediately to experience; the latter when we judge universally from mere concepts, as in metaphysics, where sound common sense, so called in spite of the inappropriateness of the word, has no right to judge at all.

Blame is just a shame game.

Dopo tutto, si giudicano gli altri solo in base al proprio cuore: l'avaro vede sempre la gente spinta dall'interesse, il lussurioso dall'ossessione del desiderio.

En el fondo, todos juzgamos a los demás según nuestro propio corazón. El avaro cree que a todo el mundo lo mueve el interés; el lujurioso, el deseo, y así sucesivamente.

Some people conflate forgiveness with absolution

Some day, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who LOOKS like a monster.

easy for people who aren't in risky jobs to pass judgment—and come to a lot of wrong conclusions—when someone pulls back.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

Tal como nos conocemos, somos objetos falsos, imposturas, ramilletes de ilusiones" "Los juicios sobre las personas no son jamás decisivos, surgen de resúmenes que inmediatamente hacen pensar en la necesidad de una reconsideración. Los arreglos humanos no son otra cosa que cabos sueltos y cálculos nebulosos, independientemente de cualquier cosa que para consolarnos pueda fingir el arte

Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.

I saw her simplicity, her ignorance, her childish unkindness, her unpretty anxious little face. She was not beautiful or brilliantly clever. How false it is to say that love is blind. I could even judge her, I could even condemn her, I could even, in some possible galactic loop of thought, make her suffer.

I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.

He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him.

Like all inexperienced people, Toby tended to make all-or-nothing judgements.

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.

Outsiders who see rules and not the love that runs through them are often too ready to label other people as 'prisoners'.

one often feels guilt not because one has sinned but because one has been accused!

Clement, usually a fluent speaker in any situation, could hear his voice assuming a pompous and affected tone, not unlike that which many actors use (wrongly in Clement's view) when playing Polonius.

Time, like the sea, unties all knots. Judgments on people are never final, they emerge from summings up which at once suggest the need of a reconsideration. Human arrangements are nothing but loose ends and hazy reckoning

One should never tell anything to somebody who won't think about it right. Or is this too timid a doctrine?

It was not a very pleasant face: heavy, perceptibly Jewish, and dour, with just a hint of insolence.