"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

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"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, Science, Religion, Nationalism, Patriotism

"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Criticism, Writing, Work

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Criticism, Environment, Blame, Existence

"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

Marguerite Gardiner, Irish Writer

Criticism, May, Respect, Smile

"Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Criticism, Introspection, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Criticism, Failure, Irony, Ambition

"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

Walter Hill, American Director

Criticism, Film

"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Criticism, Now, Understanding

"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Criticism, Science, Belief, Truth, Knowledge

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"We may say that History develops, Art stands still."

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"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

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"It is not difficult to stand above the conventions when we leave no hostages among them; men can always be more unconventional than women, and a bachelor of independent means need encounter no difficulties at all."

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"Too late... everything's always too late."

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"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."

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"Mr. Pembroke, watching his broad back, desired to bury a knife in it. The desire passed, partly because it was unclerical, partly because he had no knife, and partly because he soon blurred over what had happened. To him all criticism was "rudeness": he never heeded it, for he never needed it: he was never wrong."

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"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

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"I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's."

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"Ideas are fatal to caste."

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