All Richard M. Weaver Quotes
- Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay. Absorption
- 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… All
- 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… Admit
- 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… Answer
- No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future. Future
- The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. Anyone
- 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… Cannot Know
- 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… Admits
- The typical modern has the look of the hunted. 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… Aside
- The hero can never be a relativist. Funny
- 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… Accompanied
- [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… All
- The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. Been
- The South is a region that history has happened to. Funny
- 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… Absolve
- 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… Attitude
- 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… Admit
- 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… Acts
- We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application. Application
- Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency… Affects
- Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving… Absorbers
- Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used.… According
- 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… Almost Miraculous
- The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code… Apt