Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little… — Max Weber Copy Share
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the… — Max Weber Copy Share
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a… — Max Weber Copy Share
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,… — Max Weber Copy Share
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not… — Max Weber Copy Share
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber Copy Share
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and… — Max Weber Copy Share
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. — Max Weber Copy Share
“Judgments of the importance of a historical phenomena may be judgments of value or faith, namely, when they refer to what is alone interesting,… — Max Weber Copy Share
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. — Max Weber Copy Share
