“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood," and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.” BelieveKindMeanBookFactsViewsEffortBloodTheoryCriticizePouringTainted Author:Georges Bataille
“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.” IfsMenBelieveSometimesReasonPhilosophyStarsChallengesBrainProgressDangerousTheoryBlindMereCornersReasoningCriticizeMistakenItemsCorrectionsLiablePrevailingReactionariesBlind FaithMisledGuiding Stars Book:To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades Source: To make the deaf hear: ideology and programme of Bhagat Singh and his comrades
“I became a little alarmed at the number of my readers who took the meme more positively as a theory of human culture in its own right - either to criticize it (unfairly, given my original modest intention) or to carry it far beyond the limits of what I then thought justified. This was why I may have seemed to backtrack.” HumansMayLittlesCultureGivenNumbersAtheismTheoryReaderLimitsOriginalsIntentionPositive AtheismCriticizeModestJustifiedPositivelyMemes Book:A Devil's Chaplain Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.” PhilosophyPoliticalEconomicMovementTheoryEasierFormerLatterCriticizePsychoanalysisPseudoscienceMiltonJungPolitical MovementsHayekEconomic TheoryFriedrich HayekMicroeconomics Author:Mario Bunge
“I'm not criticizing how people experience what they might call spirituality. I am interested in looking critically at something else - at how people use their language to articulate theories about something they call religion, to say, for example, that "in Islam religion and politics necessarily go together," or to insist that "violence has no place in religion," to universalize it.” PeopleUseMightTogetherSpiritualityLanguageViolenceExampleTheoryIslamCriticizeReligion And Politics Author:Talal Asad