Quotes About Judgment

Once we start to celebrate ugliness, we become ugly to.

it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understand the virtues of a wine through a blind tasting than you could understand the virtues of a woman through a blindfold kiss.

the good citizen is the one who knows when voting is the wrong way to decide a question, as well as when voting is the right way. For

If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And

Artists and critics get together in order to take themselves in, the artists posing as the originators of astonishing breakthroughs, the critics posing as the penetrating judges of the true avant-garde.

Dogs do not judge, and their love is unconditional only because it has no conception of conditions.

This is how Kant explains the moral motive. When I ask myself not what I want to do, but what I ought to do, then I stand back from myself, and put myself in the position of an impartial judge.

While exorting us to judge other cultures in their own terms, he [Said] asks us to judge Western culture from a point of view outside---to set it against alternatives, and to judge it adversely, as ethnocentric and even racist.

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us, she said, at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality.

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

Then come to me in Bright Defile, he said, where Judgment Day is not a thing that can be delayed for overlong.

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I am part of the evil that exists in the world and in Shadow. I sometimes fancy myself an evil that exists to oppose other evils.

Kur dievas, tas prakeiktas kvailys? Negi jis neskiria, kas teisinga, o kas ne? Nesupranta papras?iausio balanso? Seniai b?t? išmestas iš darbo, jei vadovaut? korporacijai, turint omeny, kokiems dalykams leido atsitikti...

After presenting his completed sequences, he analysed the errors the others had made. You should never have thrown away the knave of hearts, he told Dina. That's why you lost. I took a chance.

Justice is always ready to lend you a spare brain in order to condemn you without a second thought

There is no sadness and no cruelty in that gaze; it is a gaze without adjectives, it is only, completely, a gaze which neither judges you nor appeals to you; it posits you, implicates you; makes you exist. But this creative gesture is endless; you keep on being born, you are sustained, carried to the end of a movement which is one of infinite origin, source, and which appears in an eternal state of suspension.

that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.

La sanción del crítico no es el sentido de la obra, sino el sentido de lo que dice sobre ella.

Washington must have seen that Hamilton, for all his brains and daring, sometimes lacked judgment and had to be supervised carefully.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

Burr, "His manner was patronizing. . . . As he revealed himself to my moral sense, I saw he was destitute of any fixed principles.

If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end "that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.

As a member of the style committee, Hamilton showed that, for all his misgivings about the Constitution, he could be cooperative and play a serviceable part. The convention showed good judgment in choosing him, given his literary gifts and rapid pen. It is hard to believe that the Committee of Style and Arrangement took only four days to burnish syllables that were to be painstakingly explicated by future generations.

He knew the western country from surveying; had the robust constitution to survive the winter woods; was mostly unflappable; had a mature appearance and sound judgment; and was a model youth, with no tincture of rowdiness in his nature. In certain ways, he was a very old young man.