“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”
“A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded.”
“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”
“The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.”
“They are the efforts of someone who, overarced by stars that are human handiwork, and who, shelterless in this till now undreamt of sense and thus most uncannily in the open, goes with his very being into language, reality-wounded and reality-seeking.”
“He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.”