Judgment

Works to read

• Now to the Lord that makes us know by Isaac Watts, 1707
• The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) by Anonymous, c. 300–100 BC
• Critias by Plato, c. 360 BC · Great Books
• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, 1613 · Great Books
• Areopagitica by John Milton, 1644 · Great Books
• Pensees by Blaise Pascal, 1670 · Great Books
• Phaedra by Jean Racine, 1677 · Great Books
• The First Apology by Justin Martyr, c. 155
• Richard III by William Shakespeare, c. 1592-93 (published 1597)
• Second Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson, 1805
• Worcester v. Georgia by Supreme Court of the United States, 1832
• The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, 1837

Passages

• The history of the world is the world's court of judgment.

  — G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right

• The two brothers were before their Father; far beyond the twilight judgment of this world; high above its mists and obscurities

  — Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

• Alas! there’s no man free: for some are slaves To gold, to fortune others, and the rest, The multitude or written laws restrain From acting as their better judgment dictates.

  — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays

• It’s a judgment on me

  — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

• the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored

  — Lyndon Baines Johnson, Inaugural Address (Lyndon Baines Johnson)

• And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of ⌈His⌉ holy ones To execute judgement upon all,

  — Anonymous, The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)

Passages are verified quotations from the library that use one of these words: judgment, judgement, judge, discern. Sentences under “From the texts” are copied word for word from the full texts in this library. Read each in its context on the work's page.