Creation Quote by Richard M. Weaver

““[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our own lives.””

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Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…

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The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which…

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The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

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“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”

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The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

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No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary…

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“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out…

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Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,…

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Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there…

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Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is…

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