Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and… — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share
That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share
The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share
