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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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SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the…
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Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised…
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When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms…
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I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the…
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To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
— Rowan Williams
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that…
— Max Weber
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In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
— John Cale
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I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always…
— Bruce Springsteen
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A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge…
— Karl Mannheim
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Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.
— David Byrne
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A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian…
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