Doe Quote by Max Weber Download Open image “Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.” — Max Weber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Men Money More money Nature Wish
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth misses the… — Edward Bok Copy Share Image
Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but those little cogs, little men clinging to little jobs and striving towards bigger ones - a state of affairs which is to be seen once more, as in the Egyptian records, playing an ever-increasing part in the spirit of our present administrative system, and… — Max Weber Copy Share
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to… — Max Weber Copy Share
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed,… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate… — Max Weber Copy Share
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.” — Max Weber Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image