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"It is quite wrong to try to introduce into literature the sametoleration as must necessarily prevail in society towards thosestupid, brainless people who everywhere swarm in it. In literaturesuch people are impudent intruders; and to disparage the bad is hereduty towards the good; for he who thinks nothing bad will thinknothing good either. Politeness, which has its source in socialrelations, is in literature an alien, and often injurious, element;because it exacts that bad work shall be called good. In this way thevery aim of science and art is directly frustrated."The Art of Literature : Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)FULL TEXT 

"It is quite wrong to try to introduce into literature the same
toleration as must necessarily prevail in society towards those
stupid, brainless people who everywhere swarm in it. In literature
such people are impudent intruders; and to disparage the bad is here
duty towards the good; for he who thinks nothing bad will think
nothing good either. Politeness, which has its source in social
relations, is in literature an alien, and often injurious, element;
because it exacts that bad work shall be called good. In this way the
very aim of science and art is directly frustrated."

The Art of Literature : Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
FULL TEXT

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