"Every type of purely direct concrete description bears……" — Max Weber

"Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal."

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53 Quotes by Max Weber

Max Weber has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing…
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism…
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.'…
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up…
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views…
In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room…
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even…
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his…

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More Artistic Quotes

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could… — Javier Bardem
I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play… — Jack Black
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal;… — William Blake
Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy,… — Andrea Bocelli
Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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