Quotes about Critique

we must learn to distinguish moral discernment from personal condemnation.2 This distinction—the ability to know what is good from what is bad and to be able to discern the difference versus the posture of condemning another person—enables us to see what Jesus prohibits in this passage.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

I am persuaded that a coldly-thought-out and independent verdict upon a fashion in clothes, or manners, or literature, or politics, or religion, or any other matter that is projected into the field of our notice and interest, is a most rare thing -- if it has indeed ever existed.

The Mormon Bible is rather stupid and tiresome to read, but there is nothing vicious in its teachings. Its code of morals is unobjectionable- -it is smouched [Milton] from the New Testament and no credit given.

Never ask people about your work.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.