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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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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical…
— Max Weber
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Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same…
— Thomas Paine
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The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the…
— William Wilson
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Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as…
— James Hillman
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Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero…
— Joseph Addison
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
— Ronald Knox
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Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
— Brian Reynolds
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The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief…
— Ariana Franklin
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