Quotes About Judgment

often inquisitors create heretics. And not only in the sense that they imagine heretics where they do not exist, but also that inquisitors repress the heretical putrefaction so vehemently that many are driven to share in it, in their hatred of the judges. Truly, a circle conceived by the devil.

Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.

Lacrimosa dies illa qua resurget ex favilla iudicando homo reus huic ergo parce deus! Pie Iesu domine dona eis requiem.

The worst diagnosticians of every epoch are its contemporaries.

i saggi critici vengono letti e giudicati da altri critici e raramente dall'artista analizzato, che o non è abbonato alla rivista o è già morto da due secoli.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must do or can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything... He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Why do I feel as if I'm about to hear a sentence passed?' 'Why do you feel as if you should?

she was standing upon the brink of the pit of hell and throwing in snowballs to lower the temperature.

What we have to do is to judge which side stands for freedom and enlightenment and which for medievalism and superstition.

Everywhere I turn I see it—credulity being exploited, and men of practical judgment, watching the game and seeing through it, made hard in their attitude of materialism. How

Friendship is a delightful thing when you have had the good judgment to choose the right friends.

Why hang a man who was so ready to hang himself?

A departure can feel like a desertion, a judgement on the place and people left behind.

With our cynicism, created by years of insecurity, how did we look on men? We judged the salesmen in the van der Weyden by the companies they represented, their ability to offer us concessions. Knowing such men, having access to the services they offered, and being flattered by them that we were not ordinary customers paying the full price or having to take our place in the queue, we thought we had mastered the world.

They say that men should look at the mother of the girl they intend to marry, Yvette said. Girls who did what I did should consider the wife a man has discarded or worn out, and know thye are not going to do much better.

What do you think, boy? is he just another lying bastard, or what?' 'Prrrt,' the cat said on a rising intonation, his eyes closed to slits. 'I thought you'd say that. I agree, I know how to pick them

Honestly, Mum, how can you say someone's a great writer if you've got a stack of reference books next to you? It's just showing off. If I behaved like that in front of other people, you'd totally tell me off when we got home. So.why is it alright for T. S. Eliot to swagger about like a complete know it all and make the rest of us feel stupid?

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat other people's office staff.

Remember what they say about bridges. The hard thing is to know which ones to cross and which ones to burn.

Ci sono persone che per le azioni altrui tendono sempre a trovare le ragioni più infime, e non perché sono cattive, anzi: spesso i detrattori non farebbero mai ciò di cui accusano gli altri. Le loro spiegazioni, piuttosto, vorrebbero dimostrare una certa esperienza della vita, laddove con chiarimenti che implicano pulsioni nobili passerebbero per ingenui e poco perspicaci.

One day a woman went to the saintly Father John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, in France, and said, "My husband has not been to the sacraments or to Mass for years. He has been unfaithful, wicked, and unjust. He has just fallen from a bridge and was drowned —a double death of body and soul." The Curé answered, "Madam, there is a short distance between the bridge and the water, and it is that distance which forbids you to judge.

It is not hatred that is wrong; it is hating the wrong thing that is wrong. It is not anger that is wrong; it is being angry at the wrong thing that is wrong. Tell me your enemy, and I will tell you what you are. Tell me your hatred, and I will tell you your character.