Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes About Criticism

• In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wind, Mushrooms, Criticism

• Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Blood, Criticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

• We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Criticism, Would Be, Criticize

• Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Criticism, Praise, Reproach

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.282, Modern Library

• We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Criticism

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

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