Preferred Judging Function

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

    “If Paris lived now, and preferred beauty to power and riches, it would not be called his Judgment, but his Want of Judgment.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The question is whether they’ve reached a depth
    Of desperation that would warrant poetry’s
    Leaving love’s alternations, joy and grief,
    The weather’s alternations, summer and winter,
    Our age-long theme, for the uncertainty
    Of judging who is a contemporary liar....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)