Atheism Quote by Immanuel Kant

“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge…

— Edward W. Said

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is…

— Oswald Chambers

Therefore, criticism has to direct itself against itself, and against the mysterious Substance in which it has up to now hid itself. In this…

— Bruno Bauer

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle

I've always been terribly uninterested in criticism. And one of the reasons, I just thought recently, is that you know there are various schools…

— Mark Helprin

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

— Janet Echelman

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.

— Anonymous

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury