Preferred Judging Function

Famous quotes containing the words preferred, judging and/or function:

    “The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “The function of comedy is to dispel ... unconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysis right on to it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)