Top 56 Philosophy Criticism Quotes
#1. Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
Henry David Thoreau
#2. When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Mason Cooley
#3. A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
Leszek Kolakowski
#4. It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off - that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.
Walter Pater
#5. Never criticize. Remember that no one deserves it more than the one who is criticizing.
Debasish Mridha
#6. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...
Joseph McCabe
#7. I regret that some on the extreme right have been so critical of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and have adamantly opposed the naming of a successor who shares her judicial philosophy and qualities. And their criticism actually reflects poorly upon them.
Patrick Leahy
#8. The fear of criticism stagnates the power of creativity.
Debasish Mridha
#9. What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.
Rene Magritte
#10. Do not fear criticism, accept it as an inspiration for boldness and action
Debasish Mridha
#11. A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.
Sam Harris
#13. If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Raheel Farooq
#14. Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.
Julian Baggini
#15. Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
Paul Arden
#16. Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or
perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am
sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland
#17. Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
#18. If you have to criticize, do it with deep understanding and love.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.
Harold Rosenberg
#20. The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.
Maurice Merleau Ponty
#21. Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.
Debasish Mridha
#22. We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.
- from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing
L.L. Barkat
#23. Ignore cynicism, appreciate criticism, and embrace optimism.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Never criticize, complain or condemn. Never forget to appreciate with love what is good in a person.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Everyone is looking for approval and appreciation even when they ask for criticism.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.
Eraldo Banovac
#27. Think small ... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.
Richard Hugo
#29. Always be ready to help; never exercise your right to criticize.
Debasish Mridha
#30. It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses. This is one of them. Bad argument gets counterargument. Does not get bullet. Never. Never ever never for ever.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#31. Appreciation always enhances performance. Criticism destroys the enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
#32. To teach someone something, appreciate even the slightest improvements and avoid criticism.
Debasish Mridha
#33. The truth is: Everyone will judge you. But this depends upon your intellectual capacity whether you are able to distinguish constructive criticism between an insult coming from other people's opinions about you.
Anonymous
#35. Trying to fit in will not change a society. To change it, you have to be brave, fearless, and strong enough to withstand societal criticism so that you may break the boundary and let light come in.
Debasish Mridha
#36. All around the recognized word and the comprehended sentence, the other graphisms take flight, carrying with them the visible plenitude of shape and leaving only the linear, successive unfurling of meaning
not one drop of rain falling after another, much less a feather or a torn-of leaf.
Michel Foucault
#37. Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#39. A linguistically informed literary criticism is the key to resolving conflict and frustration, from psychotherapy and law to philosophy and politics. Call this the messianic theory. It is based on the idea that TO THINK IS TO GRASP A METAPHOR-the metaphor metaphor.
Steven Pinker
#40. The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
L.A. Hilden
#41. Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism.
Debasish Mridha
#42. His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there's none there, and it can't be criticized as temperament, because temperament can't be criticized.
Alvaro De Campos
#43. Never fear criticism. Use the information to grow your thinking power.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'
Jeffrey Eugenides
#45. Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Fulton J. Sheen
#46. It is always easier to find fault and criticize than it is to find beauty and appreciation.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Because it exists as a living sonority, music is animated by voices, and these voices do not evaporate when music confronts the insights of contemporary literary criticism, or philosophy of language.
Carolyn Abbate
#48. We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease.
H.L. Mencken
#49. No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.
Debasish Mridha
#50. I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.
A.J. Ayer
#52. Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Criticism always produces negative reactions, but appreciation always creates positive actions.
Debasish Mridha
#54. When you are loving, kind, and appreciative, you can help change others without using criticism.
Debasish Mridha
#55. What is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?
Bertrand Russell
#56. Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.
Vladimir Lenin
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