In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 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, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the…” quote by Richard M. Weaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/786/richard-m-weaver-7447_community_progress-never-defines-its-ultimate-obje_406113.jpg)
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