Richard M. Weaver

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

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of…

— Richard M. Weaver

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of…

— Richard M. Weaver

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one…

— Richard M. Weaver

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

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

— Richard M. Weaver

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on…

— Richard M. Weaver

“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare,…

— Richard M. Weaver

Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,'…

— Richard M. Weaver

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

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language…

— Richard M. Weaver

A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ...…

— Richard M. Weaver

That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells…

— Richard M. Weaver

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way…

— Richard M. Weaver

The hero can never be a relativist.

— Richard M. Weaver

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

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

— Richard M. Weaver

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

— Richard M. Weaver

Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was…

— Richard M. Weaver

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

— Richard M. Weaver

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

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as…

— Richard M. Weaver

Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

— Richard M. Weaver

The South is a region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver