Richard M. Weaver Quotes

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• Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been…
• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes…
• The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is…
• No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.
• The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.
• The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing…
• Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from…
• The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly…
• The hero can never be a relativist.
• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce…
• [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all…
• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.
• The South is a region that history has happened to.
• Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of…
• The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said…
• The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the…
• The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory…
• We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

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