"Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it……" — Max Weber
"Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified."
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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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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find…
— Michele Bachmann
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
— Theodor Adorno
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been…
— Jo Brand
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
— Sandra Bullock
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