[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“...the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Yet it is a fact that no amount of such enthusiasm, however sincere and profound it may be, can compel a problem… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite… — 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 Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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