The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history. — 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… — 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… — 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
To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of… — 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 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
Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until… — 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
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
![“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)
