Critism

Opposition is true friendship

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

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

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us

Don't find fault, find a remedy

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.