A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.” — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image