"Ideas come when we do not expect them,……" — Max Weber
"Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion."
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53 Quotes by Max Weber
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing…
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Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism…
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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.'…
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In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up…
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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…
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room…
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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…
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his…
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