Appearance Quote by Mason Cooley

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

— Gao Xingjian

“Philosophy without criticism is like hunting deer without a shotgun, so, if you want people to like you, avoid robust philosophical debate.”

— Julian Baggini

Philosophy consists mostly of kicking up a lot of dust and then complaining that you can't see anything.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Literature has become too psychological. We discount the physical, when in fact much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or…

— Karan Mahajan

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

— Jim Rohn

The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that…

— Joseph Brodsky

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and…

— Epictetus