Famous quotes containing the word criticize:
“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 ones own.”
—Henry James (18431916)
“If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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