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Men Quotes by Richard M. Weaver
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
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