The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of… — 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… — 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… — 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
The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature,… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — 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… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to… — 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
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
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