"The ethic of conviction and the ethic of……" — Max Weber

"The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another."

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…
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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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our… — Ezra Taft Benson
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our… — Thomas Keating
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum… — Gelett Burgess
Truth and clarity are complementary — Niels Bohr
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with… — Fritjof Capra
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology… — Jean Genet
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. — Paul Klee
To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the… — Wolfgang Pauli
What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws… — August Macke
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious… — J. Boone

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