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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do…
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
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Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey…
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
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The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life…
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the…
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
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One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the…
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of…
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Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary…
— Brian Eno
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
— Max Weber
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Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.
— Leon Wieseltier
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I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science,…
— Justus von Liebig
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Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.
— Jean Cocteau
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His…
— Thomas Carlyle
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He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment,…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
— Hans Hofmann
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