"Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism."

-- William Gilmore Simms

#Awards Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Blame Quotes

“The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.”

Source : Rudolf Otto (1959). “The Idea of the Holy”, p.25, Ravenio Books
“The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.”
“There's a sorry history of these kinds of charges of bias being leveled at women and judges of color, and also gay and lesbian judges. The theory being that they're going to be incapable of a disinterested judgment on matters that involve their own identity groups. And it came up famously for Constance Baker Motley who was one of the first African American federal judges in a case involving sex discrimination.”

Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.
“Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.”
“Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.”
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
“We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
“The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.”

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