Critique Quotes

Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systemati...

...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, a...

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim...

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu'elle ne vit pas qu'i...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our sa...

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mi...

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying ...