Max Weber Quotes

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• All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
• Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
• Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
• It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
• Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
• Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
• The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
• All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this…
• Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for…
• It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this,…
• Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the…
• Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
• One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something…
• No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and…
• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling…
• Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
• All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems…

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