Friedrich Nietzsche Criticism Quotations

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

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

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.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.